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ing a blaze in the choir loft which
WAS olIickly eXtinPllished

ing a blaze in the choir loft which
was quickly eXtinguished.
An apartment house next door tt
the church was damaged extensively
by fire and the walls of nearby Be-
tbesda Hospital were Scorched. AL
patients of the hospital were safe
in underground shelters.
Authorities said the nearest thing
to military objective struck by the
bombers was the vast Siemens
Schuckert works in West Berlin.
Newspaper correspondents rushed
where they saw the effect of one
high explosive bomb which hit the
corner Of one-story brick building
in which lumber was being seasoned
The bomb ripped out about so feet
of the wall.
In another part of the big factory
two incendiary bombs started fires
In a yard where lumber was stored
in scattered piles. The blazes, which
the works foreman said destroyed
about $50 worth of lumber, were
quickly extinguished.
As the correspondents inspected
the damage several thousand work.
ers filed in to take over the early
day shift. The plant, which manu-.
features electrical cable, apparently
was functioning normally.
The largest fire started by the
bombs broke out in Ritter street ir
the southeast, only a few blocks
from the spot where the most seri-
GUS damage occurred in last Thurs
days raid.
There explosive and incendiary
bombs smashed into the roof of q
building occupied by small work.
shops and some workers apart.
ments, Starting a blaze which
burned for several hours and de-
Stroyed the homes OF several dozen
families.
Building Is UnroOfed.
In Linden street few doors from
the bombed fire department head
quarters an explosive bomb unroofed
and extensively damaged the two
top floors of an Office building occu-
pied by the Reichs Medical Chamber
can organization corresponding tC
the American Medical Association
There $50 persons in an air raid
shelter were thoroughly frightened
but unhurt.
Throughout this region in, the
south and southeast of Berlin nu-
merous small fires were started by
incendiary bombs, many of which
were recovered. They were metal
tubes inches in diameter and q
foot long.
Except in two instances civilian
raid protection organizations man
aged to extinguish the blazcs.
An explosive bomb smashed into
the middle of Sebastian street, also
in the southeast, blowing all the
windows out of a school on one
side and an apartment house on
the other.
The fire near Christus Church
was said to have given authorities
the most concern, because of the
possibility Of its spreading to Be-
thesda Hospital. But 1t was brought
under control after cutting top
floors.
The correspondents, conducted
about town in a procession led at
one time by two generals, could not
visit every spot where 1ncendiary
bombs landed.
officials said the British flyers
had tossed them out literally and
haphazardly, with only a few hit
ting vulnerable spots. The CORE
spondents did not visit Templehof
Airdrome Ito which they were taken
on Thursday morning., but were
told that one bomb had landed
on a distant field, causing no dam
age.
The raiders came in two waves.
Authorities said most of the in
cendiary bombs were dropped by the
FIRST wave, followed by high explosive
bombers who headed in the general
direction Of the blazes started by
the fire bombs.
Because these fires lighted up Sec
tons Of workers homes In the
southeast, that region suffered most
from the explosives.
Authorities said all but one plane
remained at q great height. The
machine which dipped low was
caught for q moment in the search