BERLIN DEVASTATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 70, 20 September 1943, Page 5

BERLIN DEVASTATION

EYE-WITNESS DESCRIPTION Rec. 12.50 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 19. The Swiss newspaper "Saint Gallen Tagblatt" published an eye-witness description- of raid devastation in Berlin. "The last big attack on September 3," it says, "inflicted colossal damage, particularly in the west. Streets are hardly negotiable in the Lankwitz and Lichterfelde districts. There is also great damage in the Mariendorf neighbourhood. The Templehof airfield "is riddled with holes. The article says that a number of factories and railway .stations were wrecked. "There was exasperation with Storm Troopers, who did not participate in rescue work, but they concentrated on taking into custody people who could not control themselves. It was nerve-shattering to see women demented after the raids crying continuously for lost children or wandering speechless through the streets with dead babies in their arms. Women fought for seats in an evacuation train when they thought it was about to leave without them. The rush to leave Berlin is tremendous. A.R.P. workers and other security officials think more and more of .their own safety."