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Stuttgart. During August a factory producing aircraft parts, a margarine factory, the Army Barracks and Officers' School and a small station near the main station were damaged.
Weser-Ems Canal.-Towards the end of August traffic on this Canal, which forms part of the Mittelland Canal, was interrupted for five days owing to the destruction of two sluice gates.
Mannheim. The extent of the damage previously reported to Heidrich Lanz, manufacturers of agricultural machinery, is illustrated by a report received that, while previously an average of 40 to 50 wagon loads were sent each month to Roumania, in the last two to three months only four wagon loads in all have been received.
Hamburg. On the night of the 9th September considerable damage was done to Blohm and Voss.
Hanau-The fires started were visible from Frankfurt
Railways. Persons travelling from Berlin and Cologne to Basle in each case state that they were compelled to change more than twelve times, and that even then there were long delays outside some stations. A neutral travelling from Holland could not go via the Berlin or the Rhine route.
Mining. On the 1st October the Swedish steamer Gondul of the Svea Line was mined two miles South-West of Limhamn. The crew were saved and there are said to be possibilities of salvage.
Holland.
Rotterdam.-A neutral steamer of 4,500 tons in the harbour has been seriously damaged.
Belgium.
Antwerp. Photographs disclose considerable damage in the dock area. works of General Motors has been severely damaged.
Norway.
Bergen. Of two merchant vessels hit and sunk in the harbour, one has already been salvaged and the other is in the course of being salvaged.
France.
Photographs of Havre and Lorient disclose considerable damage at both places. At Calais the electricity works has been destroyed and the harbour and docks very seriously damaged. At the aerodrome at Lanveoc Poulnic workshop hangars were hit.
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