Evening star., 1940-11-16
Nazis Threaten Raid
Like Coventry's 10
Avenge Hamburg
Damage Is Admitted;
Reich Withdrawing
Nationals From Greece
By tht Associated Press.

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By tht Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 16.-Nazis threat
ened England today with another
devastating air blow-similar to
Thursday nights vengeful raid on
Coventry-in retaliation for a Brit
ish night raid on Hamburg.
The high command said ship
yard administration building and a
hospital in Hamburg were hit by
British bombs last night, but de-
clared damage in the great port "in
no proportion with the number Of
attacking planes" Authoritative
sources In London said docks and
oil plants were among the targets)
A number of persons were reported
killed in the bombed hospital and
the high command said in its daily
communique that "a grain silo was
fired, but Immediately quenched."
Authorized sources, meanwhile,
disclosed that Germany. seeking to
avoid possible complications, is
gradually withdrawing her 5000 ma
tionals from invaded Greece,
but described the step as purely
practical and not political. Other
diplomatic activity centered around
Spain and Turkey.
"Retaliatory Attacks"
The high command said 'retali-
atory attacks on London continued
last night, and hits were scored on
49, a. t4%o orio Il
other war essential objectives. A
16,OOO-ton merchantmen and one Of
$500 tons were reported hit and
left listing" in a bomber attack on
a British convoy about 435 miles
west of Ireland.
Informed German quarters de-
clared today that the raid on Ham
burg will be avenged just as "Coven.
try paid" for the November 8 raid on
Munich They said Coventry was
attacked again last night, but on a
smaller scale than Thursday night.
Several hundred planes repeatedly
unloaded several hundred tons Of
explosives on London last night,
these sources said. listing planes
losses at seven German and IA
British.
Suner Expected in Berlin.
On the diplomatic front, author
ized sources said Spanish Foreign
Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, un-
officially reported on his way to
Paris, was expected to confer in
Berlin shortly on the invitation of
German Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop.
Informed Nazis said Serrano
Suner was expected to spend two
days in Paris and probably would
reach Berlin early next week.
At the same time, HueSrev Gerede,
Turkish Ambassador to Berlin, was
summoned to confer with his gov
ernment in Ankara. The German
Ambassador to Turkey, Franz Won
Papen, who came home some time
ago repeatedly for pheasant shoot
ing, remained here apparently on
call for developments growing out
of the recent German conferences
with Soviet Russian Premier For
eign Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotof
in Berlin.
Gibraltar Attack Seen.
The immediate diplomatic project
in Berlin was viewed by foreign OBJ
servers as an effort to drive a wedge
between Britain and Turkey, whose
friendship British War Minister An
thony Eden presumably attempted
to tighten during his recent visit to
the Mediterranean.
Turkey guards the Dardanelles,
strategically placed across the path
of any axis drive to the rich Near
Eastern oil fields and the Suez
Canal.
Spain already is considered here
an axis collaboration, at least morally,
IN the reported fixing of spheres of
influence for Germany, Italy, Japan
and Russia in Europe, Africa and
Asia.
observers in Bern, Switzer-
land, viewed Serrano Suner's trip
as a possible indication of a re-
vival of axis plans to attack the
British fortress of Gibraltar,
with Spain participating actively
or permitting axis troops to cross
Spanish soil)
New Military Moves Expected.
In the last two days the German
Air Force claims to have sunk at
least $4,000 tons of Shipping and
damaged an equal amount. while
500 planes rained destruction on
Coventry and other parts of Eng
land. A railway station in the CEN
ter of London was said to have been
hard hit during the night and an
airdrome at Maidstone also was SUBJ
jected to heavy attack.
New military moves were expected
as result of the staff conference
yesterday at Innsbruck between
Marshall Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, chief
of the German high command, and
Marshal Pietro Badoglio of Italy.
Wilhelmstrasse officials said that,
in accordance with war time GUS
tom, neither the time nor place of
Serrano Suners conference with
German leaders would be announced
in advance.
German diplomacy doesn't stand
still" was the only comment.
Foreign newspaper correspondents
today were shown an indexed map
of Coventry, taken from the air,
which they were told demonstrated
how the German staff works in its
bombing operations.
White lines marked each military
bjective-airplane factories, mu-
y,itions DlantS and Others