AIR ATTACKS KEPT UP

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 301, 27 September 1940, Page 5

AIR ATTACKS KEPT UP

THE RAIDS ON BERLIN POWER STATION HIT TARGETS IN CENTRAL AREA

(United Press Association. —Copyright.) Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, September 26. Last night’s long air raid on Berlin is described in an Air Ministry bulletin, which says: — “From soon after 10 p.m. till the early hours of this morning heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force kept up a series of attacks on important military objectives in and around Berlin. Four separate attacks within an hour were made on the Klingenberg power station in the heart of the industrial section to the east of the city. This station, known as the Gross Draftwerk Klingenberg, has an output capacity of 300,000 kilowatts and is the power supply source of some of the city’s largest industrial concerns. Sticks of heavy .calibre bombs bunt on and around the station, followed by an outbreak of fire.

“ The west power station, two miles south of Tegel, which had already been heavily damaged in previous raids, was again attacked and a large fire was started. Salvoes of high explosives were dropped on the Schoneberg railway yard, three miles southwest of the centre of the city, and on the main railway . junction near the Charlottenburg district, one of the chief residential quarters of the city.

“In the attack on Berlin’s main airport, Tempelhof, a line of bombs was laid across the north part of the aerodrome and . the nearby railway sidings were also bombed. Another raider, which arrived over the east outskirts of the city six minutes before midnight cruised above the industrial district for 20 minutes searching for its target under heavy fire from the ground batteries. I After five parachute flares had been released the target, a munition factory at Rudersdorf, 17 miles east of Berlin, was located and bombed and fire was seen to break out” —British Official Wireless. (For comparative purposes it may be stated that the whole of the output of power stations in the North Island of New Zealand is 169,650 kilowatts, and of the South Island 73,500. The Lake Coleridge station output is 33,000 kilowatts).