The Archive · 1940

Hamburg Havoc

Istanbul, Oct, 13.

'Travellers reaching here who describe the havoc caused by RAP. bombings in Germany, comment pai fleularly' on the "uncanny" precision' with which British bombs ud their targets.

declared that following one attack on Hamburg. five merenant ships. were sunk in the harbour which, owing to enormous damara, te now practically unusable, although the city self is hardly touched. li tanks there are said to be bur "Bremen was attacked at the same lime og Kiel and a serics of explo~ sions "were observed after the Fold nd_throe fires were blazing, Docks and the Deutsche Petroleum 'At Hanover. travellers add, Yugo slaw workers have asked {o' be Fe-patrioted because they are unable to Jendure any longer the nightly inferno the Royal Air Force—Reuter works at Hamburg were also bombed. and fires were. started inthe early lage of our attack.

"Several acrodromes on the islands strung along the Dutch and German coasts suffered severely, among them were Do Kooy, Texel. Norderney, Wangeroog and Sylt.

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