HEAVIEST SO FAR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 7

HEAVIEST SO FAR

ATTACK ON BERLIN.

MEDIOCRE DEFENCES

(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 1. It was a great consolation to Londoners . as, tired after their 24th successive all-night vigil in the shelters, they went to work in the morning to learn that Berliners had received the largest dose of the same medicine so far.

Five waves, at considerable intervals, penetrated Berlin’s defences and attacked the city and suburbs. Neutral correspondents comment on the surprising paucity of anti-aircr.ait fire, enabling the boinbers to reach their objectives almost without- molestation.

The British activity for the most part was concentrated on the outskirts, where most of the industrial buildings are located.

A special German communique states that three British planes 'were shot down.

The, Associated Press Berlin correspondent says the R.A.F. dropped at least one high-explosive bomb near the Zimmerstrasse, Berlin’s Fleet Street, which is only a stone’s throw from the huge Air Ministry building and the Potsdam station. A German communique says the British planes were prevented - from executing their attacks on Northern and Western Germany. A, few reached Berlin and dropped bombs from a great height. The damage .everywhere was small. A number of civilians were killed and injured.