The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-09
Docks, Shipyards at Nel Were Some of Targets
 Hit By British Bombs RUSSIA FOLLOWS UP
 ATTACKS ON BERLIN British Public Warned to Take German Reports
 With Grain of Salt
BY NED RUSSELL

United Press Staff COrrespOndentb
 London, August 9. = (UP) - British and Russian nyerA hit Germany from west and east again last night, tlla British concentrating on tho naval base at Kiel and nortllS west Germany while the Rus Sians reportedly sent their giant, four notored planes all the way to Berlin.
 The British air ministry said the docks and shipyards at Kiel wer4 subjected to an "accute and Suss tained" bombing and that "enor1na ous fires were left burning" The attack was carried out in brilliant moonlight, and was extended south to Hamburg and other places, the air ministry said. It reported folN British planes missing. N
 News that Soviet planes, followiuN their initial attack of Thursdayl night, again had bombed military | Objectives in the vicinity es BeT@ lin," first reached here in aiz q change telegraph dispatch from | Moscow. ;. :. = x. Berlin Admits It
 tAt Berlin, where raid last :nigltA was admitted, the official German News Agency said German bombexa last night attacked several air meld9 in east and southeast England. scor~ ing numerous hits on landing nElds and crews living quarters and czsis ing fires and explosions. Tho Agency said other German forfnn@ tions raided important east coase and southeast coast ports: tha& German night fighters shot down three enemy" planes and that naval artillery brought down a fourth.
 GA German communique admitted that Berlin had an air alarm laSt night. It said ''enemy" planes flew in from northwest and north Ger- many and a few attempted to reach Berlin but anti-aircraft forced them back, and two were shot down)
 (Russia cleared up the mystery o9 Thursday nights raid on Berlin ii1 8 communique last night. GermanE had admitted the raid and Britail% had denied making it. The Russiaxl communique said s'a group of our planes carried out . reconnoiterin@ flight over Germany and dropped & certain number of incendiary and high explosive bombs on military Ob- jectiveS in the Berlin area. Tho bombing caused fires. Explosions were observed. All our planes re- turned to their airdromes without loSSeS.)
 What Russia Used
 Reports from Stockholm said tho Russians used three squadrons of heavy T. B. type of four-motor bombers in Thursday nights raifR and took of from the Islands C6 Saare and Hiiu of the Estonian coast. The islands are appEoximats ly $50 miles from Berlin, entaiiin& a round-trip flight of HOO miles.
 (Janeis All the Worlds Aircraft, aua thoritative handbook, lists a n. B. 6 type of Russian plane with four motors. It is credited with BIO miles an hour speed, a bomb load capacity of 6,600 pounds and is said to U capable of flying at 26,O0O feet.>
 According to the Stockholm ros ports, the Soviet honbers used were the same type which flew over the North Pole from Moscow to Cali~ fornia. The Russians were said tw have blasted factories and power plants in the Berlin suburbs Thurs day night. Sweeping in from the north, they caught the Germans bv 1t was said. The German anti-aircraft failed to open fire aud German night fighters took on t0D
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