GERMAN ADMISSION OF HEAVY DAMAGE
(Rec. 6.30 pm.) SYDNEY, June 2. In a remarkable broadcast in German to South Africa, the Berlin radio, dealing with the raid on Cologne, declared: “Already 4748 dead and wounded have been counted and many more are still cut off in shelters. The destruc-
tion in Cologne is beyond descrip-
The broadcast, which was picked up by monitors of the Australian Department of Information, says: “From St. Agnes’s Church to the Post Office, from the Hohestrasse to the Brietestrasse, the Opera House and particularly the Severin district are all one mass of ruins. All telephonic communications have been cut off. Heartrending scenes were witnessed. Two thousand five hundred barracks and 3000 tents have been placed at the disposal of the civil defence organization to house the homeless. All reserve stores have been thrown open to feed the wretched victims.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24760, 3 June 1942, Page 5
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