Bertin, Sept. 12.
At east 40. persons were _killed 4i'4l injured ox a Tesult of British Planes dropping bombs. on Berlin the igh Come swept over Berlin early today and Three planes fltacked residential sections and arcas containing national monuments in the capital's centre while other "British planes bombed Hamburg and Bremen, Residential districts of Hamburg and civilians were Wounded, the official D.N.B. news hgeney announced. Fires were also ted by British incendiary bombs ig! Hamburg and Bremen.
Although no persons were reported nailled inthe raid on Berlin carried out between 1243 am. and 2.10 azn. fhumerous fires were started by ineendiary bombs.
'The British planes apparently concentrated their attacks on the same! Sreas which they subjected to heavy' bombings early yesterday morning.
British planes, the official communi-cue said, last night "continued attacks: ea Berlin. They specially attempted {o strike residential sections inhabited by working people, and famous national monuments "bombs were found in the Ti garten. They apparently were aimed at the same, objectives as on Tuesday and Wednesday nights "Part of the British attackers was forced to turn back in west Germany by German air defences. These raiders after midnight flew over the anti flrcraft belt around Werlin at 2 great "Thereupon an air alarm was given in Berlin. The English approached from the west and north and circled over the city.
"in north-west Berlin they dropped tone incendiary bomb on a factory. Small res were caused in various faces in the inner city where incen-'Giary. bombs oslo fell on residential and business houses, The Fire Department quickly reached all res. and extinguished" all flames."—United Press.
Swedish Comment Stockholm, Sept. 12
Describing lost night's RAF. raid Berlin, the correspondent of the Aftonbladet" says that gunfire broke out in all parts of Berlin with un-Grual" violence simultaneously "with the sounding of the alarm, A large number of machines participated the raid Judging from the noise of "Soon bomb explosions were heard, and fires. started in many patts in berth-Wwest and central Berlin, includ: ing a large factory.
After the all-clear, unexploded bombs were found in the Tiergarten and the vicinity and of the East-West Axis, Herr Hitler's much prized new artery.
The raids on Wednesday night on Bremen and Hamburg were much more serious, It is officially stated hat there were many dead and in-
The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm Tidningen says that in Tuesday "night's raid, the RAF. dropped bombs in the gardens of several. Nazi Ministers—Reuter.
Tuesday's Raid Viotent New York, Sept. 12
Defying German threats to raze London if Britain does not stop bombing Berlin, the Royal Air Force on Tesday carried out its most violent and most spectacular assault on the German capital so far, according 10 reports from London and Berlin to New York papers.
The messages told of British high explosive and incendiary bombs raining on the heart of Berlin, hitting the Reichstag among other buildings, while the Potsdammer Railway Station also was struck.
The German Government was described as enraged, Tt seems that Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, had a. arrow escape when bombs fell in the garden of the United States Embassy barely a yard from his home.
'A. heavy incendiary bomb fil about ten feot from the house of Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, Hermann Goering Strasse during Tuesday night's Royal Air Force raid on Berlin, according to the official German news agency. The bomb is ssid to have made a large crater, spoiling a rose bed—Reuter.
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