Evening star., 1940-09-12
Northern Cities Hit,
Berlin Says; Homes
Termed Sufferers
B1 the Associated Press.

B1 the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 12-British air.
men in the gigantic duel with Ger
many repeatedly bombed" North
German cities, including Berlin,
Hamburg and Bremen, last night
and early today, the high command
announced.
Incendiary and explosive bombs
plunged into residential quarters"
of these cities, according to the daily
communique, and numerous fires
and damage resulted to dwellings
ard laborers' settlements"
The accuracy of anti-aircraft
gunners, the discipline of the civil
population and the swift work of
air raid precautions organizations
were credited with curbing the de-
struction and restricting total
casualties to IA dead and Al injured.
Six of the R. A. F. night raiders
were said to have been shot down
over German territory by anti-air-
craft batteries. Britain's total plane
losses yesterday, including ST in the
Battle of London, were put at 80,
as against 20 German. THE Brit
ish tally for all actions yesterday
was SO to "a in Britain's favor0
Retaliation Continued.
A German armada of fighting
planes, chasers and destroyers con-
tinued the "retaliatory attacks on
London day and night" the high
command said, adding that dock
and harbor facilities, which were
lighted brightly by fires, a gas and
electrical works, a powder factory
and an armament factory were
heavily hit"
The pressure centered on London
was designed to plunge that capital
into complete confusion and cripple
the industrial organization.
Yesterdays assault also included
attacks on plane factory at South
ampton, where six hangers were de-
stroyed; oil tanks hit at Port Vic
toria. night raids on Liverpool and
"other harbor facilities on the west
and south coast of England" the
high command announced.
At the mouth of the Thames. the
communique Sid. Nazi fighters
dived on convoy, setting fire to a
destroyer and four merchant ships
and hitting two other conveyed YES
sells.
In submarine attacks on British
conveyed shipping an additional
47,000 tons were reported sunk, but
this included q 900 tons given in a
previous partial summary by one T.
boat commander.
The German wireless broadcast
that two German seaplanes attacked
British convoy in the North Sea
between Moray Firth and Aberdeen,
Scotland yesterday and scored a
direct hit on a 3,000-ton merchant
vessel.
Besides ST British planes reported
shot down in the battle of London
and six over German territory,
the high command said six British
bombers were brought down of
the North Sea coast and another
on the channel coast, making 80
for the day.
Berlin got of with the lightest
damage in the r. A. F.'s night at
tack, according to Der Angriff,
Propaganda Minister Goebbels'
paper. Thirty-six apartment houses
at Hamburg were damaged, Der
Angriff added, and there was about
the same damage at Bremen, where
it was said bombs fell on the CEN
ter of the city. The center of Ber-
lin was bombarded for 80 minutes.
1t became obvious that Germany
whether or not 1t was preparing
for land invasion of England-was
counting on the incessant pound
ing of bombs to create such panic
in London that the defenses would
fail on account of complete dislo-
cation of economic and military ac-
tivitieS.
Numerous incendiary bombs
plunged to the heart of Berlin, many
OF them falling into the famous
Tiergarten, the city's largest and
most frequented park. This was the
(See BERLIN, Page A-3)