WRECK OF DUSSELDORF

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 12 August 1942, Page 3

WRECK OF DUSSELDORF

EXTENSIVE RAID FIRES SAARBRUCKEN DAMAGE LONDON, Aug. 3. Daylight photographs of Dusseldorf show the extensive damage done on Friday night. Many fires were burning when the photographs were taken some 12 hours after the attack. A great deal of the damage was in the predominantly industrial areas and the proportion of factories hit by high explosives or gutted by incendiaries is high. Not all the damaged factories have yet been identified. An area of about 12 acres of dock has been completely devastated and an analysis of the industrial damage here has not yet been made. Some of the heaviest damage was to buildings along the main streets in the southern part ol the town. Many warehouses in the dock area, particularly in Handelshafen and Holzhafen, have been destroyed. The main shops of a steel company’s works were wrecked by a direct hit and the main shops of an engineering works were also completely destroyed. Two buildings in a steel tube factory were demolished, and four large buildings of a textile factory destroyed completely. A chemical works in the suburbs and the customs house at the docks were still blazing when the photographs were taken. The main railway line was hit.

Saarbrucken, attacked on Wednesday night, was also photographed by day and severe damage was revealed. Part of the Erhardt Schmer engineering works has been destroyed. Five large sheds and adjoining small buildings in .the Eich Dudelinger Berbacher iron works were seriously damaged. About half the buildins of the main' goods station was destroyed and several railway shed? nea"r the main passenger station were severely damaged. Several buildings and cement work* have been destroyed, and businesspremises and houses over a large area devastated.