BERLIN RUINS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 203, 28 August 1943, Page 5

BERLIN RUINS

RESULT 0? R.A.F- RAID GERMAN SUPPRESSION OF NEWS (By Telegraph—Proas Association—Copyright) Reed. 8.45 p.m. London, Aug. 27. The dead so far found in Berlin after the R.A.F. attack on Monday night total 5680. Many more are still buried under the ruins of bombed buildings and there is also an unspecified number of missing. According to a German police report quoted by the Stockholm newspaper Afton ’i idningen’s Berne correspondent. Army field-kitchens are feeding 120,000 bombed-out persons. Four Spanish workers caught looting were shot, and 34 Italian and 52 other foreign workers were arrested on suspicion of looting. Himmler thereupon ordered foreign workers living in barracks in Berlin to be moved out oi the city. The Daily Mail says an iron censorship has been operating in Germany since Himmler's appointment as Minister of the Interior and the R.A.F. raid. No authentic -details oi raid damage or Berliners’ reaction have been reported. Even favoured neutral correspondents are allowed to send their papers only trifling items oi news. London morning papers, however, publish reconnaissance photographs taken over Berlin eight hours atter Monday night's raid. Great splodges of smoke obscure a large area, but widespread damage can be discerned in the centre of the city, where street after street of roofless buildings can be seen. Interpretation experts state that nearly 100 fires were burning.