ANOTHER BERLIN RAID

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 202, 27 August 1943, Page 5

ANOTHER BERLIN RAID

GERMANS SUPPRESS NEWS Heed. 6 p.m. Rugby. Aug. 25. The Air Ministry news service says that fires were still burning in Berlin last night when Mosquitoes were Over the city at about 11 o’clock. In contrast to the clear sky on Klonday, there was a good deal or tloud over the German capita! last Ju Mght, and. this together with the glare of hundreds o r searchlights and tne smoke which still hung over the lily, made observation very ditficuli. No fighters were seen by the Mosquitoes, but the ground defences were Motive. According to a Zurich report, all fteutral correspondents have b* a Compelled to leave Berlin proper and live until further notice in the order iuburbs. Reports or even hints as to the damage caused in the latest heavy laid are strictly forbidden. The Propaganda Minister made it clear that torresnondents were expected to t rite in praise of the effertiven ss of |fce defences. The repo;: adds that »t is confirmed from an unimpeachable source that the railway traffic If the German capital has been interrupted.—B.O.W. Reed. 7 p.m. London. Aug. 25. Extraordinary secrecy is being maintained in Berlin about the R.A.F. laid on Monday night, says the Stockholm correspondent of the United 11 nit cd Pre-s. Swcd sh correspondents bi Berlin were not aHoived to mention the raid, apart from informing ■eir newsnape i whether they were ■EI able to work. . Reuter's Zurich correspondent says * that the Germans have imposed an ron censorship on anv but the bares'. Official accounts of the R.A.F. ra d. Berliners crowded the air-raid sheiers from early yesterday afternoon, n expectation of another raid last tight.