Evening star., 1943-11-25
Attack Is Aimed
At Horossing
Nuzi Capital
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Nov. 25.-Swift RAF
Mosquito bombers set off the air.
raid sirens in Berlin for the third
successive night by stabbing at
the German capital again last
night as smoke still rose skyward
from conflagrations set by Brit
aims heavy bomber fleets.
The purpose of the attack, from
which only one of the raiders failed
to return, obviously was to harass
and confuse the battered defenses
OF the city, which already had been
burned and devastated on q scale
hitherto unknown.
A thick yellow pail of smoke
spread 300 miles from the German
capital-as far as the Swedish east
coast-as the speedy atwood bomb
ers set the sirens to wailing again.
Raiders Go Out Again.
The British based offensive went
on into the daylight hours today.
Several waves Of Allied aircraft
possibly medium bombers with
fighter escort-cut through brilliant
Channel sunshine toward the con-
tinent early today.
The effect of the Mosquito raid
must have been to put new strain
on the morale Of dazed Berliners
who were unable to tell whether to
expect another new blow from the
great forces of heavy bombers which
struck Monday and Tuesday nights
Only one Mosquito of a force of
undisclosed size failed to return
from the Berlin run" which in re-
cent months was a familiar trail for
the twin-engined aircraft. The
bomber version Of the Mosquito Is
capable Of carrying four 5o0-pound
bombs-relatively small change
compared with the great two and
four-ton blockbusters deposited by
Britain's four-engined heavies on
the previous two nights.
The mosquitoes have been over
Berlin II times since the middle of
August.
fHcS SLIH burning.
BY all accounts the heart Of Nazi-
dom still was a sea of fire. A report
from Stockholm said . blanket of
yellow haze over Oeland Island od
the Swedish coast covered the
island for three hours yesterday.
An Raj commentator indicated
that the German capital, now the
most heavily bombed city in the
world, would be hit as often and
solidly as the weather and strategy
permitted.
'1t Is the greatest price," he de-
clared.
Only a small number Of planes
no heavies-engaged in offensive
operations from Britain last night,
but Berlin had no reason to breathe
easily.
Although destruction was piled on
destruction in this weeks two ma
moth attacks. all available informa-
ton suggested that methodical OBJ
liberation of the mestropolis still
had some distance to 60.
Hamburg was turned to rubble
under the impact of 10000 long tons
of bombs. Hamburg, however, is far
smaller in area and population than
Berlin, on which $4,000 tons have
fallen since the first of the year.
The vast destruction in Berlin,
plus the relatively low cost in bomb
ers-26 Monday night and 20 the
next-made it clear that the Ger
man high command must find q
quick way to check the British with
more severe losses in order to save
the city.
The 1,400 long tons OF bombs es-
timated to have been dropped Tues
day night by the light of fires set
in Monday nights 1000 plane attack
raised Berlin well above Hamburg
as the most heavily bombed target
in the world
The Berlin double blow sent Nazi
leaders into fury of high sounding
threats, one military spokesman de-
claring that I'VE, to our regret, are
forced to use our reprisal weapon" +"
There was not even a hint of
(see RAIDS, Page A-2)