RAF. Bombs Heavily Damage Berlin

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 113, 14 May 1941, Page 8

RAF. Bombs Heavily Damage Berlin

GERMAN ANGER LONDON, May 12. The R.A.F. raids on Berlin last Friday caused particularly heavy damage near Doenhoff Platz, and Potsdamcr Platz, where a great number of buildings were destroyed, states a Zurich report. All neutral reports agree that recent R.A.F. raids have caused considerably more destruction that the earlier attacks. The increased death-rolls at Hamburg, Kiel, and Bremen are attributed to the fear of the population of taking refuge in shelters, because these are often blasted by the powerful British bombs. The construction of deep shelters is starting immediately, and evacuation schemes are being prepared for seaports and dock centres. Signs of Nazi anger at the British air attacks are apparent even from quotations from German newspapers put out by the German news agency. The Voelkiseher Beobachter says: “Only an unsoldiery nation like Britain and a Government of profiteers and fortune-hunters such as Churchill’s can hope for any permanent success against the nerves of the civilian, population by their methods of warfare.” Another paper says: “Churchill should refrain from his systematic attacks on the residential quarters of German towns and on the civilian population. He and his criminal gang will be paid back in their own coin.”