TOLL OF LAST RAID
TWO-THIRDS OF CITY GONE
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)
(Rec. 9 a.m.) ZURICH, Sept. 25
Eye-witnesses declare that in the recent R.A.F. raid on Karlsruhe two-thirds of the city was either destroyed or so badly damaged that only the outlines of the ruined buildings remain.
The damage was among the heaviest ever inflicted on a German city. The dead are estimated at from 8000 to 10,000. Hundreds were drowned in the shelters through the bursting of watermains and drainage pipes.
The fires were so extensive that brigades were summoned from Heidelberg and Stuttgart. Bombs battered thp industrial quarter, the port, and the heart of the city.
Many workers have now been transferred from Karlsruhe to factories in Venice and Milan.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 7
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