Evening star., 1943-11-24
Berlin Is Swept by New B|azes
AfterSecond Heavy yRaidbyRAF;
Senators Ask Full Patton Report
Death Toll in
First Attack Now
Placed at 25,000
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Nov. 24.-The RAF
hurtled tons of destruction down
on Berlin again last night, seek
Ing for the second night in sue
cession to knock out the German
capital, much of which already
has been devastated.
The force and weight of bombs
dropped last night probably ap-
preached but did not exceed the rec
ord of Monday, when more than
$500 tons were delivered by approx
imately 1000 bombers, nearly all of
them of the four-engined type.
Concentrated and effective" was
the Air Ministry's description of the
second great attack on the world S
most-bombed capital.
Despite more favorable weather
for the defense the Raj lost only
20 planes in the second successive
Berlin attack and simultaneous
Mosquito attacks on Western Ger
many, compared to 26 lost in COM
parable operations the night before.
new FlrcS SWecp Cap1tal.
Berlin already was chaotic from
history's greatest aerial attack de-
livered only "a hours before when
the new deluge of Allied bombs
struck last night.
Berlin correspondents of Swedish
newspapers said new fires and walls
of fame" more than half mile long
swept Berlin after the second at
tack
The Stockholm newspaper Alton
tidningen asserted fires started by
incendiary bombs last night linked
up with flames still burning from
Monday nights attack.
= Stockholm's Allehanda estimated
$4,000 persons were killed in the
first attack. 1t added the center
of Berlin again was the main target
last night and railway stations, gas
and water mains suffered heavily.
Communications Halted.
The German capital was isolated
from the world today by telephone
and telegraph. Neither telephone
calls nor kilograms were being ac-
cepted in Berlin this morning nor
were Swedish correspondents able
to telephone out of the city.
kilograms from Stockholm in
tended for Berlin were being sent
to Hamburg, but 1t was not known
how they were being relayed to the
capital.
Because Berlin is the hub of Hit
ler-domlnated Europe, communica-
tions with virtually the whole con-
tinent were affected
In Stockholm diplomatic repre-
sentatives of legations bombed out
in Berlin still were trying to con-
tact their colleagues.
A new and unconfirmed report
said the Eden Hotel on Budapest
Strasse near the ZOO was ruined.
Scream for Revenge.
Both the Nazi press and radio
started screaming today for re-
venge, and a military spokesman
told a foreign press conference in
the German capital that Germany
now will use her "reprisal weapon
because terror attacks" on Berlin
and other German towns have
grown to such proportions.
The spokesman refused to disclose
the nature of the "reprisal weapon,
which he said Germany regretted
she had been forced into using.
The impact of the paralyzing at
tacks on the German capital made
it appear that wholly aside from
physical damage to either the ad-
ministrative center or the large war
industries in the suburbs, the new
aerial drive bulked as the wars
greatest offensive against enemy
morale.
Berlin as the nations capital has
a sentimental attachment for every
German. and the beating it is taking
is symbolic blow to all Germany.
While the German high command
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