Daily Post - 30.05.1941, Blaðsíða 3

ÐAILY FOBT

‘They'll get ai good as tbejr give'
Mr. Churchill,
IYE-WITNESS ACCÖUNT OF BERLIN
BOMB DAMAGE
One iof Britain’s “beautiful ba'ckrjom"
bombs w'hi'Ch whðciked a railway station
in Beriin blewt in all the wtind'ows and da-
ma'ged many roofs wiithin a half-mile radius.
This news oomes from an American busi-
ness man, who has recently arrived in Lis-
bon from Germany.
The American describes the new bombs
as “aerial torpedoes". One of them wrecked
Witzleben Station at Westkreuz, Berlin.
A thousand Jewish families in Beriin wtere
veoently given three days to leave their
homes and remove their furnitu're in order
to make r.»m for ten thousand people
bnought for shelter to Beriin afteir the heavy
plastering of Bremen, Hambuíg, Kiel, Wil-
helmshaven and Hanover.
One reliable witness from Hanover re-
poried 'that a “backroom bomb“ wrecked
350 hoiuses oompletely. Solid eight storey
German blooks of flats wene smashed and
roofs damaged over a wide area.
Beriin took its heaviest bombing during
the third week hn April, leaving scars on the
capital's prin'cipal avenue, the treeiess Unter
den Linden, The State Opera House, and
the roof and top floor of the State Library.
The Schweizer Haus, where the Swiss
Tourist Bureaus were installed in Fried-
riohstrasse were alsio wrecked.
The Ameri'can said that damaged h.ouses,
broken pavemerits and wrecked publiic build-
ings 'can be seen in Berlin in industriaJ
distrilcts. The authorites, however, still
minimise the appearance of damage by the
mobílisation of workers, inoluding ten
thousand Italians, who are rushed to the
sqene of the bombings- They quicklý remove
debris and demolish badiy damaged build-
mambers of the crew1 busy stopping the
bolas so that we would not sink when
w« landed «ni the wat«r *t o»r bao.“
I
Y, M. C. A.
TO-MIGHT—8.30 P. M.
Lieut Newlove, R.N.R.
will give a tulk:
“Four years a
Prisoner of War
iis Germany46.
ings, patcli up rninior 'damage, or erect
hoardings around it so that it is invisible
fnom the street. I
A Nazi leader foid him that the April
raids were serious. He doubted if the under-
fed, highly-stmng Berlin masses ooukl
stand oontinuous bombardments of this
character in the same way as the Londoners.
40,000 ITALIANS LEFT IN ABYS9INIA
LONDON, May 29th.
The new German push in the Sollum
anea is not interpreted in London as the
beginning of a large scale offensive. The
enemy has made no attempt to push on
fnom Hellfiiie Pass.
During Tuesday night Australian troops
at Tobmk made a small advance and r«-
cowned same posts. V
In Abyssinia patriot tmops have captun#d
nnore Italians in the lakes district.
It is now estimated that the Imperial
troops in Abyssinia have to deal with som*
40,000 Italians distributed between the lakes
district and the Gondar anea. Fnee Fremch
and South African aincraft have sucoess-
fully raided enemy positions in these oreas.
The Chief of Staff of the Fascist Militia
has been dismissed fnom his post. Th«
Italian neports curily state that as from
May 25th he has ceased to fill th'is position.
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