SCARE IN BERLIN
PLANES FLY OVER
GUNS IN WILHELMSTRASSE IN ACTION
RUSH TO SHELTER
(By Telegraph—Press Association 1-Copyright.)
(Received August 3, 12.50 p.m.)
LONDON, August 2
The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain states that the daily Foreign Office Press conference was dramatically interrupted when anti-aircraft guns, apparently situated on the roof of the Foreign Office, suddenly went into action.
Two planes flew low over the Wilhelmstrasse at 11.15 a.m., drawing fire from the guns on the Foreign Office. The gunfire lasted for half a minute. Many people, rushed to shelters,'but the sirens were not sounded.
This is the first.time since the outbreak of the war that the guns at the Wilhelmstrasse have been in action.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 12
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119SCARE IN BERLIN Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 12
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