Railway Lines Wrecked, Locomotive Shed Struck, Address Suggest Only Record was Relayed Sorting Yards Engulfed in Mass of Flames London, Nov. 10. London, Nov. 10.
In informed quarters here it is ATLWAY lines were wrecked, locomotive sheds were struck questioned whether Hitler ever made his speech in the beer cellar at and sorting yards became engulfed in flames in a mass of Munich on Friday night, writes fire on Friday night and the early hours. of Saturday as R.A.F.
Reuters diplomatic correspondent. bombers subjected rail communication centres in Munich to one Th* fact that the broadcast of the of the heaviest and most concentrated attacks yet launched by speech was postponed three times, he declares, at least suggests that the R.A.F. against a single objective. there was such interference by Brit-The raid.began soon after 8.30 p.m. For nearly two hours ish bombers while the record was relays of attackers rained down high-explosive and incendiary being made that it was found neces-bombs on a four-mile long sorting yard and railway workshops, sary either to make another recording or patch together usable parts of the original with new material.
before the world really knows what It S s will be some time 'A number of: industrial targets happeneü In the famous cellar while received heavy punishment, and a which—was Hitler was speaking or about to in a low level attack, speak; but, continues the correspondent, people will form their own vast expanse of rail tracks glinting Was seen to be enveloped in clouds in the bright moonlight was easily vf smoke, and was still burning when impressions of the scenes that must have attended the sudden and located, and within a few minutes of a bomber repassed it on its home-entirely unexpected visit of British the first attacks multi-coloured - ex-ward' journey over an hour later. raiders. plosions could be breaking out in Another large factory near Uber-Nothing was more calculated to many parts of the great yard, while linen, on the shores of Lake Con-bring home to Nazi readers the fires sprang up to burn and spread stance, was straddled by successive with fierce rapidity. sticks of bombs. The. Siemens striking power of the RAF.
In the first hour of the attack direct Schuckert works in Nurenberg were Of the speech itself, the corres-hits were scored on a maze of rally bombed at intervals for nearly an pondent says it was a rehash of all old arguments and restatements way tracks near the main station on hour, and in an attack on the inland both ends of great workshops and port of Duisberg bombs fell across with which everybody has become on long lines of locomotive sheds. the dock area and burst among ship-so familiar in Hitler's speeches. Hitler seems to have dwelt little Other buildings were wrecked by. ping at the wharfside. more than usual on his confidence the force of close explosions, and Twenty enemy aerodromes were some of the great fires started could bombed or machine-gunned in the in his power, but he was less cocksure as to the immediate future. be seen plainly from as far away as course of the night's operations. A Augsburg by the crews of incoming hangar was set on fire at Tubingen Although there were fleeting refer-bombers. by a direct hit, and at Ostvoorne, ences to Italy and Japan, versions in Holland, vast columns of smoke of the speech circulated by the Ger-Extensive Raids towering up to about 8,000 feet man Wireless make no allusion te Moscow.—Reuter. suggested that a fuel dump had been London-distance raids on Italy and set on fire. the large-scale attack on Munich were not the full extent of Friday
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