HEAVY ATTACK

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 27, 26 October 1940, Page 12

HEAVY ATTACK

R.A.F. Onslaught On

Berlin

POWER STATIONS HIT

(Received October 26, 12.50 a.mJ

LONDON. October 24

The R.A.F. gave. Berlin and other centres in Germany a particularly warm time last night. For the twenty-second time R.A.F. bombers were over Berlin, for almost two hours.

The targets included Berlin's two principal potver stations —the Berliner electricity works in the Charlottenburg area and the Klingenberg power station on the opposite side of the city. The airmen also attacked the great railway yards at Templchof, Pulitstrassc and Lehretcr. The last of the raiders did not leave Berlin till after 4 a.tn.

On their way over Germany. Um ground defences opened up but the pilots dismissed the opposition as "the usual sort of stuff.”' But over Berlin the barrage was a different proposition and the raiders faced intense and concentrated tire.

One of the R.A.F. pilots made six separate runs over the Charlottenburg (►ower statiou to ensure hitting the target. Several tires broke out immediately after the bombs were dropped While the R.A.F. was striking at Berlin, other raiders were attacking the Emden docks. Tons of bombs were dropped on the docks and adjacent railway sidings. Other Objectives included a factory 40 miles east of Bremen, where night work was in progress. the Dornier factories at Wismar, also a factory at Brunsbuttel.