FIRES STILL RACING
WILHELM STRASSE BUILDINGS BESTRBYED (Rec. 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 25. \ thick v smoke haze from the fares raging in Berlin over .300 miles away novered the Oeland Island, off the Swedish coast, for three hours yesterday, reports Reuter's Stockholm correspondent.
Eye-witnesses reaching Sweden to-day stated that the R.A.F. bombs destroyed so many houses in one Berlin suburb that at least 85 per cent, of it will have to be evacuated. Almost every building on one side of the Wilhelmstrasse has been destroyed or damaged
The S.S. barracks and the Sportspalast were directly hit.
Four people with their clothes blazing throw themselves from the fourth floor window of the Kurfustendamm building. Last night's raid on Berlin was the seventeenth attack on the city since the middle of August by Mosquito bombers, and the raid was Berlin's ninety-second since the outbreak of war and the twenty-ninth this year.
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Evening Star, Issue 25032, 26 November 1943, Page 3
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