RAID ON BERLIN.

Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22354, 22 May 1944, Page 3

RAID ON BERLIN.

DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS LONDON. May 21 I Photographs following Friday’s l raids indicate damage to industrial areas and railways in Berlin and to an aircraft components factory and a pipe and boiler factory near Brunswick. In Berlin groups of bombs exploded on railway sidings, in the Horst Wessel area and on a railway repair shop. The Royal Palace in Berlin was hit during the raid, according to the German deputy press chief, Suendermann, speaking over the German overseas radio. He said the Gobelin Hall and the Schluter Court in the palace suffered heavily. The German news agency reported that the building housing documents relating to the last Olympic Games held in Berlin in 1936 was set on fire. The documents, however, were saved and are being kept at the International Olympic Institute as a basis for the next Olympic Games. When returning from escorting the bombers. Mustangs swooped down on a seaplane base in Saaler Bay, northern Germany, and destroyed five fly-ing-boats and a small liaison plane.