Anli-aircraft fire was punctuated by occasional detonations which undoubtedly were from British bombs, The ground fire Was so heavy that the brilliant flashes from the antiaircraft barrage IMuminated Unter Den Linden and the entire central part of the en pital.
Residents of the capital scooted into alr raid shelters at 1225 a.m. when the first alarm sounded, Dur-ting the first {en minutes of the at-nek, heavy explosions were heard in the northern and western parts of the city.
The faint hum of the British planes, apparently flying at an exceedingly high altitude, could be heard when antisniveratt "batteries were tem porarily silent, 'Twenty minutes after the first alarm was sounded, anti-aircraft, batteries were In action throughout the eapitat and' a. short while Tater German fighter planes appeared to have taken to the skies.
The air alarm was the fifth Berlin has experienced since the start of the war, but the present British attack, which Is still in. progress as this is written, is the first real British bomb. ing atlacke on Berin—United Press.
German bombs caused considerable material damage in repeated air raids on this port yesterday. but the number of dead and wounded were surprisingly small.
'The raids wiped out rows of houses, wrecked the gas works, the borough engineer's office, a religious assembly all, nine saloons' and one hotel.
In the first raid, the Germans flew said. high above the town. They were met with a heavy barrage from Lord North and Sister Killed in Explosion London, Aug. 26.
Lord North and his sister, Lady Cynthia Williams, were killed as a result of an explosion on the south-east coast yesterday.
Lady North was critically injured. The explosion was heard and felt several miles away and is understood to have been caused by a land mine—Reuter.
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