DEFENCE SURPRISED.
RECENT 'RAID ON INNSBRUCK.
DAMAGE TO ROLLING-STOCK. (Rec. 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 19. The air defences at Innsbruck were taken completely by surprise in the recent raid by United States bombers, says an eye-witness quoted by a news agency. Bombs crashed in the middle of the railway station and marshalling yards, where many hundreds of goods waggons and “several dozen locomotives were standing. Fifteen minutes later extensive fires were raging and they spread .to the large international hotels near the main station. -; Twelve hours later the railway officials announced that traffic was. impossible over a stretch of railway.
The eye-witness said he had learned that the damage at. Bolzano, far exceeded that at Innsbruck. —British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 60, 20 December 1943, Page 3
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