The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-17

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 itation from the RAF. The German Transocean News Agency denounced the raid as "a terror attack on considerable scale"
 (Stockholm reports broadcast by the BEG said foreign journalists in Berlin had been forbidden to trans- init any description of the raid, but private information reahcing the Swedish capital indicated the raid had created widespread destruction in the center of the city and the inc dlstrial outskirts)
 Despite the huge flare path laid by the Nazi fighters, many bomber crews reported they failed to see a single enemy plane over Berlin-one of the most heavily defndd aras in all Europe.
 weather prevented immediate observation of results" the air Inin- iStry announced in @ communique, "but after the attack was over, the pilot of @ reconnaissance aircraft reported large fires and smoke ris-, ing above tn eclouds."
 Thirty bombers were lost in the Berlin raid and in subsidiary at- tacks on unspecfiied objectives in northern France and western Ger many, the latter by twin-engined mosquitoes.
 Watchers near F'olkestone on the English southeast coast reported bomb explosions i11 the Calais area of the French invasion coast, where Stockholm and Bern dispatches have told of the building of con- crete emplacement for German rocket guns.
 A Swiss broadcast quoting a Ger man report that government dis- tricts" in Berlin had been 10; indi- cated that last nights raiders blasted another sizeable section of the center of Berlin into ruins.
 Reliable private information reaching Stockholm also reported additional destruction in the center of Berlin and said communications had been disrupted and water, gas and electric facilities knocked out. Huge fires were said to have been started.
 "Berliners were forced to fight their way through debris blocked streets filled with choking smoke and burning embers," Stockholm dispatch to the United Press said.
 ''For example, one person whose identity cannot be revealed took three hours to walk to work through the center of the city although normally 1t takes him less than half hour"
 A number of government offices, as well as the American and other embassies, already were in ruins from five heavy raids in the 12 nights ended December 2, when a large portion of the Unter Den Lin- denWilhemistra raSse-P Pariserplatz in the center of Berlin was devastated.
 The Lancasters struck again last night just as repair and cleanup squads were completing the task of clearing the rubble from the earlier attacks and were restoring blasted communications.
 German propaganda broadcasts referred only to damage to 'res- idential quarters" and said addi- tional details were mot yet avail able"
 The raid boosted the total ton- mage dropped on Berlin in the past month alone past the 10,5OO-ton mark and put the Royal Air Force more than one third along the road to total destruction of the German capital, air experts said.
 Last nights attack was the 96th of the war on Berlin and the 18th that has exceeded 800 tons in weight. The -engined bombers last hit Berlin the night of Decem- Der 2. They raided the industrial center of Leipzig December 3, but had been grounded by fog and clouds since.
 One of the missing British bo1nb-, CTS was reported to have landed near Ushult in southern Sweden. Swedish police interned four of the crew, but three others were missing.
 Only few hours before the big armada of night bombers roared out from Britain, large formations of Flying Fortresses and Liberators had attacked unspecif1ed targets in northwest Germany in daylight yes- terday.
 Eleven bonbers and one of the escorting fighters were lost, but the raiders shot down IS intercepting enemy aircraft.