MORE TARGETS HIT

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 316, 27 September 1940, Page 4

MORE TARGETS HIT

R.A.F. OVER BERLIN RAID LASTS HOURS SCURRY FOR SHELTER GREAT FIRES BREAK GUT INDUSTRIAL -PLANTS (News by Cable.) LONDON, Sept. 23. A number, of military objectives in the heart of Berlin were s-ingled out and attacked on Tuesday night, when Royal Air Force heavy bombers for the second night in succession carried the war into the German capital in a raid lasting for 2jhours. The raid began shortly after 10.30 p.m., says an Air Ministry bulletin, when -the first attacker, evading an intense barrage from the city’s ground defences, located and bombed the great Siemens and Halse factories which produce a large proportion of the electrical equipment used by. the German armed forces. Great fires were seen to break out in the target area after the bombing. Berlin’s electric power transformer and switching station at Uriederichsuelde, supplying most of the city’s industrial current, was attacked at 1 a.m. to-day. Sticks of high explosive bombs ‘were seen to burst across the plant. A blast furnace in the sout-h-east suburbs was struck, causing large fires. Two sticks of bombs were dropped across a canal bridge two miles south-west of Berlin’s main airport at Tempejhof. According to German reports, an air-raid alarm which lasted for nearly three hours sent Berlin residents scurrying to shelters. High explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped, resulting in civil an victims. The raiders apparently were fewer than last night.