IMMENSE HAVOC
HEAVY BRITISH BOMBS RAIDS ON DUSSELDORF SMOKE-SCREEN BARRAGE NAZIS HIDE FACTORIES (Reed. April 9, 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 8. A Daily Telegraph correspondent, in a dispatch from the German frontier, quotes an informant who says that Dusseldorf experienced some of the Royal Air Force’s heaviest raids. He said the Germans now put up a smoke-screen from each factory immediately the raiders were signalled.
Britain’s heavier bombs greatly increased the havoc, penetrating to the basements of buildings. The raid on the night of March 14 destroyed a paper factory, a timber yard, an animal feeding stuffs factory, and a large grocery warehouse.
The fires were so big that the Dusseldorf, Cologne and Essen brigades worked for 18 hours before the flames were controlled, after which the fires burned on for 12 hours.
The Royal Air Force dropped 34 bombs on another night within the area covered by the Mannesmann steelworks and also hit a petrol store at Dusseldorf aerodrome and a petrol dump at Neuss.
Another attack tore up the permanent way at Krupps’ works station and also destroyed an adjacent factory.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20526, 9 April 1941, Page 7
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