Tires Still Burn in Berlin
Some Too Big to Extinguish (By Telegraph—Praes Assn.—Copyright.) Received Friday, 7.25 pjn. LONDON, Sept. 3. About 450 fires are still bunting alter Tuesday night’s R.AJF. raid on Berlin, says the Stockholm newspaper Allehanda’s Berlin correspondent. Borne of the fires are so large that no effort is being made to extinguish them, firemen merely checking the flames from spreading. Fire lighting equipment was called In i/jm Frankfurt, Stettin, Dresden and Liepzig. It is estimated 5000 were killed in the raid. The attack, Just as heavy as the previous raid, completely paralysed Berlin’s tramway and underground communications. The main force was fe*t in central Berlin and the southeastern and southwestern suburbs. Streams of bombed-out people are moving along the roads. A quarter of a million persons have left the capital and over half a million are sheltering in the vicinity of the city.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 210, 4 September 1943, Page 5
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