TREMENDOUS HAVOC

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 255, 26 September 1942, Page 5

TREMENDOUS HAVOC

KARLSRUHE MADE TO PAY

810 DEATH ROLL

(N.Z, Pres* Association—Copyright.) (Rcc. 11 a.m.) ZURICH, Sept. 25. Eye-witnesses declare that in tho recent B.A.F. raid on Karlsruhe two-thirds of the city were either destroyed or so badly damaged that only tho outlines of ruined buildings remain. The damage was among tho heaviest ever inflicted on a German city and the dead are estimated at between 8000 and 10,000.

Hundreds were drowned in shelters through the bursting of water mains and drainage pipes, and tlie fires Were so extensive that brigades wore summoned from Hcidclburg and Stuttgart. Bombs battered the industrial quarter, the port, and the heart of tlie city. Many Workers have now been transferred from Karlsruhe to factories in Venice and Milan, DESTRUCTION AT COLOGNE. It is now known that the destruction of the Humboldt Duetz engineering works as a result of tllO ](X)0bomber raid on Cologne was far more extensive than at first thought. A depot at Bremen lias received no spare parts for Diesel engines from tho Humboldt Duetz works since Cologne was attacked on May 30. An army depot at Cologne containing spare engines for lorries was hit during tlie same attack and over 1000 engines destroyed or seriously damaged. R.A.F. BOMBS OSLO.

A London report states that in daylight to-day R.A.F. bombers attacked targets in Oslo, Norway, where Quisling was celebrating the second anniversary of his coming into power. It is a year since Oslo was bombed. Messages say that those attending tho Quisling celebrations fled to shelter. . .

According to a Press Association cable tlie Berlin radio says that British bombers were over Sweden last last night and anti-aireratt batteries opened up at Hclsiilgborg.

POLISH PILOT’S FEAT. An Official Wireless message says that the Polish pilot of a Wellington bomber who was attacked by two Ju 88’s in tbe Bay of Biscay yesterday shot down one and forced the other to break away. This was the third Ju destroyed in the Bay of Biscay yesterday, the two others being Shot down by Beaufigliters.