Evening star., 1940-10-13
R. A. F. Raids Berlin
Blasting City After
-Four Quiet Nights
Torpedo Boot Attack
On British Worships
OFF Wight Reported
~ the Associated Press.

OFF Wight Reported
~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Oct. 13 Sunday Brit
ish raiders dropped explosive and
fire bombs on Berlin last night and
early today, causing casualties, but
no important military damage, Ger
man sources officially announced.
One soldier and several civilians
were said to have been among the
dead and wounded.
A quantity of lumber was set
ahre, and one bomb crashed near
4 hospital in a raid lacking the
intensity Of previous assaults.
Only one plane was observed from
vantage points in midtown. Sill
houetted against the moon, it fled
into the safety of cloud pursued
by anti-aircraft shell bursts.
- Cannonading from ground bat
teries was heavy at times, and
searchlights restlessly swept the
skies. Gunfire was heard outside
Berlin, too, as civilian sleep was
interrupted after four quiet nights.
British Warships Attacked.
No fires were seen from the Asso-
ciated Press Office roof.
Informed sources said Nazl air.
men returning from attacks on Lon
don reported new fires early today
In their "pauseless" campaign against
the British capital.
German torpedo boats attacked
British naval units in battle OH
the Isle of Wight in retaliation for
the British home fleets recent she'll
ing of Cherbourg, Nazi sources said
last night.
Details on the battle, its result and
even the base of the German fotilla
were withheld, but it was indicated
that the German force had met an
English submarine. destroyers and
torpedo boats off the Isle of Wight,
which shelters Southampton and
the British naval base of Ports
mouth.
Sally from CherbOurg.
The sally apparently was made
from Cherbourg, scene of she'll
ing by units of the British home
feet on Thursday night. The Brit
ish said this engagement, support
ed by Royal Air Force bombings,
left great fires among invasion
ships" in the great Cherbourg mil
!tary port and basin. The German
high command said there was no
military damage and that the at
tacking warships were repelled.
German bombers pushed home
the attack against London and its
Thames waterway to the Channel
yesterday, dropping bombs on mill
tary objectives' near historic Lon
don Bridge, informed sources said.
and strafing Hastings on the Chan
mel. These sources said II British
planes were shot down, with two
German planes missing.
Waterloo Station, south of the
Thames, was struck several times,
Nazi sources said, and other bombs
burst east of Victoria Station and
in other districts of Westminster,
the borough in which the houses of
Parliament and other government
buildings are located.
Other attackers struck at a mill
tary camp at Dungeness, Is miles
south of London.
Big Guns Shell Convoy.
Semi official German sources, re-
capitula ting the aerial warfare since
last July, said the British had lost
$3.50 planes, 1900 of them fighters.
In the "a hours ending yesterday,
DNB, the German news agency, re-
counted, nearly half million pounds
Of bombs again were dropped on
England.
Objectives which the high COM
inand listed as hit:
THE neighbohood of Battersea
Park" on the south bank of the
Thames, (where London's largest
power station is located.
Many docks and warehouse reg
ions at Liverpool and London and
industrial properties in Birkenhead
and Manchester Great conf1agra-
tions" were reported observed in
London.
Arms and supply depots in the
Midlands and East Scotland, an
arms plant in the latter area being
reported burned to the ground"
Long distance guns on the French
coast shelled and broke up British
convoy off Dover, the high command
said. and bombers attacked conveys
off Scotland and the Herbirides Is
lands, immobilizing several ships. A
submarine, it was claimed, sank three
ships totaling 21,OOO tons in another
convoy.
"Acts of terror" against Dutch
localities was charged to overnight
bombers of the Royal Air Force, and
more or less heavy damage to
persons and property" was &C.