GERMAN REPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 90, 12 October 1940, Page 12

GERMAN REPORTS

(Received October 12, 12.30 p.m.)

LONDON, October 11

The Berlin news agency states: "Last night English planes carried out numerous attacks on residential quarters in German towns, many persons being killed and injured. A bomb fell on a four-storey tenement at Essen, devastating the place and killing women and children. Two other bombs exploded in the streets and damaged other [houses, leaving several dead and some seriously injured when a direct hit destroyed a tenement. Thirty houses were seriously damaged at Dusseldorf and bomb damage was also done in [Leipzig and Magdeburg." The news agency says that the R.A.F. is now using flaming, leaves six times the size of those previously used. It is also stated that a British heavy cruiser approached Cherbourg early this morning and that the coastal batteries went into action so effectively that she withdrew to the British coast. A German communique says that #nemy attacks on towns and industrial plants in west and northrwest Germany caused no military damage. The Berlin news agency says that a hail of bombs was dropped on Hamburg last night in the most violent R.A.F. raid yet made. There was devastation over an area of half a square xnlle many houses being destroyed, three people killed, and a large number injured. The R.A.F. also heavily ijaided Amsterdam, 18 persons being and 2.Q wounded.