GREAT DISLOCATION

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 171, 16 April 1942, Page 6

GREAT DISLOCATION

Recent Bombing Of Cologne (Received April 15, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON. April 14. Further survey of the damage done to Cologne, the third largest city in Germany and an important railway and industrial centre, emphasizes tiie serious dislocation of municipal and industrial life of the city already. It is now known that bombs recently fell on the entrance hall of the main railway station and the booking offices, luggage registration department and the station post office were either destroyed or severely damaged. The platforms and railway tracks were also bit, and there is little doubt that passenger train services must have been disorganized for several days. Another railway target extensively damaged is Koln-Nippcs railway workshops which was probably turning out wagons and other rolling-stock. The damage here was considerable. One large block of sheds, comprising about one-third of the entire plant, had been hit several times, and the other shops and sheds, covering an area of about 18.000 square yards, had either been severely damaged or gutted. It is certain that the -ntput from these workshops must I . been greatly reduced. Sheds in the Deutz marshalling yard had been burnt out. and bombs which hit the tracks at the east end of the yard must have held up much traffic. On tlie right bank of the Rhine several important factories, including the large Kalk and Deutz plants of Humboldt Deutz which makes engines for aircraft and submarines, had been hit. Damage was also done to docks, installations ami warehouses.