COLOGNE DAMAGE
IMMEASURABLY GREATER THAN THAT TO ANY OTHER GERMAN CITY. ANALYSIS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 13. A detailed interpretation of the Cologne photographs shows that the damage caused by the 1000-bombers’ raid was immeasurably greater than anything yet done to any other German city. Not only are large areas in the centre of the city devastated, involving destruction of public and administrative buildings and business premises, but industrial and residential property in suburban areas has been seriously affected by fire and the high explosives. Apart from devastation extending over approximately 300 acres, in the centre of the city, areas of particularly severe damage can be seen in the western suburbs and the industrial districts on the east bank. It is estimated that more than 250 factory buildings and workshops have been either destroyed or seriously damaged, A striking feature of the raid was the amount of damage done to railway communications. There is no photographic evidence of damage to the cathedral, though damage to adjoining buildings suggests that some minor damage may have occurred.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1942, Page 3
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