The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-05

| HUH eNoS ~ in an effort to demonstrate that British raiders bombing Berlin again last night inflicted only slight dam- age.
 Admits Berlin Bombed A high command communique admitted that two sections of Der lin had been bombed by the British and that IS civilians had been killed in north German city.
 "An attempt to attack the Reich capital failed because of strong anti aircraft fire" the communique said. 'The enemy succeeded in dropping bombs on the city at only two points, which here as elsewhere in the Reich caused only unimportant damage"
 The IS civilians were killed, it was related, when a bomb struck a building in a northern city where workers had taken shelter instead of going to a real shelter. It was asserted that the British had lost 57 planes yesterday against IT for Germany.
 NaI sources said that the British raid on Berlin lasted two hours. The exact time of the alarm and the "all clear" signal were not given.
 Officially it was said that two per- sons were killed in the raid and that an army store house was hit.
 Dispatches Censored
 (Under a new German official rul- ing dispatches on air raids may be sent only after the raid has ended and then dispatches must conform to official verSions.)
 An official statement said:
 Numerous British planes again attempted to penetrate the Berlin antiair barrage. Thanks to strong anti-air fire, which shot down one enemy plane before it reached the capital only individual plane flew over the city.
 High explosive bombs were dropped at two points. One fell in the Tiergarten and killed one po- liceman. Another hit an army store house in northwest suburb without causing great damage.
 "In a southwest suburb a house was damaged by anti-air shell frag- ments.
 "In small town southeast of Ber- lin a high explosive bomb hit a workers quarter and killed one per- son and injured one"
 A Nazi informant said that the air alarm sounded soon after mid- night when two British planes suc- ceeded in breaking through the anti aircraft barrage and flying over the capital. The planes dropped several incendiary and explosive bombs in the workers quarters of Koenigs- wusterhausen, the informant said.
 Night Fighting
 German night fighting planes CO., operated with searchlight crews, he said.
 The informant said that British planes dropped incendiary and high explosive bombs at several places in Germany. mostly in open fields" Bad Kissingen, in central Germany, was aCCacked, he said.
 It was asserted that Britain lost 54 planes yesterday against IS Ger man planes.
 The official news agency said that German planes bombed various har- bors on the British east and west coasts during the night and that violent fires were observed. One Ger man plane failed to return, it was said.
 Italy in Battle
 Rome, Sept. 5.-- (UP)-A severe naval and aerial battle between Italian and British forces at the important Fascist base on the Dode- canese Islands of the Turkish coast was disclosed today as fighting in- tensified throughout the Mediter- ranean area.
 British airplanes and warships bombarded the Dodecanese bases in the eastern Mediterranean and were counter-attacked by Italian planes and torpedo speed boats (known as mas boats), which hit four British ships and shot down five British planes, the high command said.
 The b0-mile-an.hour speed boats were in action for the first time. 70. portedly proving effective with their Init and run" tactics.
 in addition to the Dodeeanese which brought the war closer 70 nervous Greece, the high command reported violent aerial bombing Of three British cruisers and two desIFoyers oii Algeria, whera one British cruiser was reported afHrN