Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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35TH YEAR, NO. 28—52 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1941
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BRmSH SINK 2 AXIS SHIPS CHASE PLANES IN SEA FIGHT
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CIO Head Re-enters GM Dispute
Mediation Board Is 'Hopeful' of Averting Strike
SHIPYARD THREAT
Machinists Will Tic up Work on U.S. Warships
Washington, May 10 (UP) - Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organiza- Ijnns, re-entered Defense Board ne¬ gotiations today seeking settlement of a threatened strike at 61 General Motors  plants.
Murray returned after being ab¬ sent for "a week as a representative of Ihe United Automobile Workers, a CIO affiliate, in an effort to break a deadlock that had brought negotiations  lo a  crisis.
There was an indication of im¬ portant developments at hand when the afternoon session broke up at fi:,30 p. m, Vue-Chairman William H, Davis of the Mediation Board and rhairman of the five-man panel handling the GM case told re¬ porters  at  the  hour:
"VVe are still in the bargaining stage."
The UAW - CIO representaliveh had plhnned to leave for Delrnil hy regular airliner at 10:30 p. m. to present a progress report to A union mass meeting Sund.iy but instead they chartered a plane and ordered it to he ready at B:.30 p, m.. stipulating that it be held in rase they were not ready at that hour. Mediation Bft^rd attaches said that they regarded these facts as "hopeful" that « Kettlemcnt would he reached tonight.
Secretary of Labor Frances Per¬ kins cprtified the dispute to the Mediation Board on April 27 after three weeks of negotiations by .Ismes Dewey of the U.S. Concilia¬ tion Service failed to bring about sn agreoiient. Shipyard  Strike  Threatens
Meanwhile, labor officials and Congress showed concern over the threatened strike at 11 San Fran¬ cisco shipyards. Chairman Harry S. Truman, D., Mo., of the Senate committee investigating defense, said he hnd asked parties involved in the dispute to give him full in¬ formation on  the issues.
An OPM labor division spokes¬ man pointed oul thnt the Pacific shipbuilding agreement recently signed hy labor and management groups in the industry provided for time and one-half overtime pay, double time for Sunday, no strikes and a .?1.12 hourly wage rate for skilled workers. He said that some nf the unions seeking %\.IT> an hour and double lime for all overtime are violating the agreement.
Associate OPM Director Sidney Hillman named Aiseph Keenan, head of the OP.Ms AKl. labor unit, i In confer from Chicago with union representatives in San Francisco in "in effort to avert the walkout by the AFL unions Monday,
Strike Scheduled In West on .Monday
San Francisco, May 10, (UP) - '.".overnment labor mediators work¬ ed again.«t time tonight to avert a work stoppage on .$.'500,000,000 of ielensc shipping contracts sched¬ uled to go into effect Monday.
Some 1,900 AFL and CIO ma¬ chinists working in 11 shipyards called the strike today but because nl the Saturday holiday pickets will not be established until Mond'ay around the yards where four 'Continued on Page A-22i
Report ^azis Reaching Iraq
New York, May 10, (UP)— Rsdio Bud-ipesl. heard by the .N'ational Broadcasting .System, reported tonight in a dispatch from Ankara Ihal "large number.- of German fnops are arriving in Iraq."
Ne^w Draft Call Ready For Roosevelt Signature
Another Million fJow 21 to Register Early in July; New Rules Certain
Agony in the Snow
Washington, May 10 (UP)-A se¬ lective service proclamation calling for the registration of an estimated 1.000,000 men who have reached 21 since the first R-day last October , jS «•,^.'; ready fnr the Presldc.'.t's I signature tonight.
The proclamation draft was com¬ pleted ny SelectiW Service officiaiV this afternoon bul il contained a blank space for the registration date. President Roosevelt will de¬ cide that. It wa.s planned to trans¬ mit the draft to the White House next week with the recommenda¬ tion that the date be set early in July, preferably the first of the month. ^
Officials said they expected the proclamation to bo issued within three weeks. They .said that plans are being perfected to hold a lot¬ tery for the new registrants 10 days after registration. Register with Boards
New regulations have heen draft¬ ed providing that the registration be conducted b.v local Selective Service boards instead of by counly election othcials a.s in the case of the fir.il R-day. Each member o( a local board will be in charge of a precinct registration slation. They will be as.sisted by volunlecis. The regisli ation proclamation, officials said, will be similar lo thr original one except for the age of Iho.sc who must register. U calls for simultaneous registration in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Alaska. In Ihc first registration, different dales were set for the territories nnd   possessions.
Officials also said that they plan lo provide mnre substantial regis¬ tration cards for the new regis¬ trants. The original ones were flim.sy. ;
To Relax Altitude '
Various proposals concerning the method hy which new registrants would be selected for military training have been studied. But officials are convinced that the method which might prove fairest and "least subject to criticism" would be to add the new regis¬ trants to existing lists.
A   large   percentage   of   the   new registrants    are    expected    to    be eliffible  for service.    Officials  hope that   fact   might   serve   lo   brine .Tbout   a   more   liberal   attitude   on the   part   of   local   hoards   toward present  registrants.      National  Se¬ lective    Service   headfiuarlers    has received   an   IncreasinR   number  of complalnls that many locnl hoards ; have   been   too   rigid    in   dealinRS , wilh   registrants   and   have   caused ' hardships  in  many  cases.
Formal disclosure that regulation changes are planned came in a let¬ ter from Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Her¬ shey, acting draft director to Rep- : resentative Andrews (R.. N. Y.> in! answer to complaints that some local boards now dffer all married men while others sign many of them   up.
"We certainly agree that the '. question of married men and the broader question of dependency have been an outstanding problem" Hershey wrote. "We have heen studying nil aspects of this problem for a long while and have reached some definite conclusions upon which modified procedure will be based.
"It is expected thnt existing reg¬ ulations will he amended a.s soon as possible In order to carry out the new procedure and bring about uni¬ formity." •
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Greek soldiers rush to aid of ! Battling In Intense cold, Greeks wounded comrade fallen in snow, added further glory to their his- in lasl stages of fighting in Greece.       tory, before Nazis conquered them.
Points to Truth Of His Earlier Reports on Nazis
Minneapolis, Minn., May 10, (UP)
Charles A. Lindbergh charged to¬ night that the "principles of democracy" were denied the Ameri¬ can people in the last nat'ional election and said he doubted thnt "any country in Europe has been less informed about the intentions of its government than wc have heen  here  in America."
Lindbergli, lecalling that a gen¬ eration ago his father was speak¬ ing on platforms in Minnesota against American intervention in a European war. addressed a rally sponsored by the America Fir.st Committee He was introduced by Hanford MacNider, Mason City, Iowa, former national commander of the American Legion, U, S. Senator Henrik Shipstead, R,, Minn., also appeared on the pro¬ gram.
"There was once a time in Amer¬ ica when wc could impo.se our will by vote,' Llndhcrsh said, Xo Choice at Election
"Many   of   us   thought   wc   were still operating under that principle \ at    the    elections    last    November, j Both  political  parties  had adopted platforms   again.st   intervention   in thi.s  war   .   .  .   but  it   now   seems doubtful   that   we   even   had   two parties last November, at lea.sl as , fnr  as   the  presidential   candidates I were concerned.   The people of the nation  were not given  the  chance to vole on the greate.«t issue of our generation    the    is.suc    of    foreign IContinued on Page A-22) i
Hammer Mannheim; Polish, Dutch Raid France and Norway
London, May 10, (UP) -The Royal Air Force was reported tonight to have made another sledgehammer attack on the great Rhineland in¬ dustrial center of Mannheim in a night of blitz-.scale raiding that in¬ cluded bombing of industrial objec¬ tives   in   Berlin.
Tonight Radio Berlin went off the nir, indicating that the Royal Air Force is over Germnny, possi¬ bly for its third successive night of  heavy  attnck.
For the second .successive night the RAF' struck al Germany wilh a force of bombers comparable to those employed by the Luftwaffe over the Briti-sh Isles. The British bombers smashed away al Nazi targets but bad weather kept Britain almost free of German air action  all  through  the  night.
Beat off Xail Planea
This morning there was large- scale fighter actio i along the Brit¬ ish southeast coast when patrols of Spitfire and Hurricane fighters repeatedly beat off attempts by Messerschmilt patrols to fly inland.
German fighters attempted hop¬ scotch maneuvers in the scattered clouds but the wnry British fighters pounced on them at heights of five and six miles. The din of machine- gunning was plainly audible nn the ground. At least one Messer¬ schmilt was shot down.
The   British   offensive   was   not
confined to German targets.   Aided
by Polish and Dutch air units, the
British    raided    docks    at    Calais,
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Balkans Mystified by Russian and Cerman Moves; Many Predict (Wishfully?) War Likely by June
Columbia Binadc«sting .System tonight heard Radio Budapest re¬ port that Uie Iran embns,sy at Ankara had denied leports that a large number nf CJerman "tour¬ ists" had been arriving in Iran (Persia).
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By HAKOLU PETKHS
Lstanbul, Turkey, May 10. (UP) - There is growing belief in Rumania —po.ssibly strongly tinged by wish¬ ful thinking that Germany and Ru.ssia will eventually come to blows, po.s-sibly in the near future.
That  is  the  information  I gatn- ered    on    a   trip    southward    from , Budaiie.st.   across   Rumania,   to   Is¬ tanbul.    However,  there  is   equally little  official  information available
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evidence which i.s cited in support of growing Ru.s.so-tIerman ten.sion. Attack -New Vork Story
(The   official   DNB  news  agency in Berlin today attacked an article appearing   in   lhe   New  York  Post concerning   alleged   German   pres¬ sure  on  Rus.sia and  characterized j the dispatch as "a complete inven- I tion."  In  London  there was  diplo¬ matic speculation that Adolf Hitler nnd Josef Stalin may meet within the next few weeks lo discuss com¬ mon  problem.s.) The belief in Rumania of a com- } ing  Russo-Cjerman  clash  seems  to I stem, in part at least, from the in¬ creasing burden of the Nazi occu¬
pation of that country, Rumania hns been under occupntion for eight months now and the burden of a garrison now estimated nt 7.V).nno troops is heavy. Almost all the prominent Rumanian personalities with whom I talked suggested that a Russo-(ierman war was likely by ,Iiiiie. Border  .Moves  Walclied
One report wa.s that Ru.s.sia has (ompletely stripped Bessarabia nnd hiiilt ¦:.tf^>i(,..iiMiiii.vAiinntm 'enia-he Dniester, suppo.sedly a.s a pre¬ caution against a sudden Nazi thrust over the Rumanian border. One high source told me that the Ru.s.sians have removed all tele¬ phone equipment from the former Be.ssarabian  capital of Kishineff.
Another ju.st returned from Soviet Be.s.sarabia claimed that all metal had been removed from that terri¬ tory even doorknobs, zinc roofing, telephone wires and plumbing where it existed. This per.son .said peasants had showed him the sag¬ ging shells of houses from which all the metal and the wooden up¬ right jnist.s  had  been  removed.
The fields were said to have been
I left   unplanted   and  some   of  them
; burned. Cattle were said to have been driven across the Dniester.
I heard in Rumania the same story, which hnd been told me often in Budapest that the Ger¬ man Todt labor organization is feverishly building a fanwise series of roads in Slovakia, all of them leading toward Russia. New  Roads Towards  Russia
When it was pointed out that W"».—».»w-5' .-ystcm pret,•?:«*.¦?., will not be completed in time for any summer campaign and may merely constitute a feint to hold Russia in check, my informants went on to claim that six German knockdown submarines already have been ship¬ ped down the Danube for assembly on the Blaik Sea. It is also claim¬ ed that the Russians moved 2< submarines overland to the North Sea during the winter.
The German submarines, of course,   would   not   necessarily   be
i employed against Russia and might even be only a protective force. However,   there   is   no   doiihl   that
' Nazi sailors have appeared on the
HatreeU  of Bucharest.
Germans Staging Another Revenge Raid on London
By NEU RISSELL
London,   (Sundayi  May 11.  (UP) ^
London rocked and rumbled early today under the severest bombardment since April 19 as German bombers swarmed over the capital and loosed a hail of high explosives nnd incendiaries.
In possible retaliation for heavy British attacks on Germnny this week, Nazi planes unloaded thou¬ sands of incendiaries and hiin- ri." .'j...' high cxplosive.s heimmr new rioslrucliotv )ifttf"dc&\h on Uie city. I
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Casualtic, were reported heavy and were expected to go even higher when dnwn mnkes possible a tnbulntion of missing, killed and wounded and rescue work can be speeded up. 1
Thousands of Londoners dashed for shelters, basements and sub¬ ways when it became obvious, soon after the air raid sirens shrieked, thai London was to be the Luft¬ waffe's main target of the night,
Londoners expected it, however, after the pounding given Berlin by British bombers on Thursday and Friday nights,
"Jerry never misses a chance for revenge," one Londoner snid. "We have hern hu-lfy in Londi.ip while me other icnvns have I)e^ .i.i.'vling hell. But noiw it's our lurn." ¦ Tlve stifHm of {,o.-..i-,.< * itli A;cir deafening explosions, mingling wilh the chatter of bursting "Molotov breadbaskets," the clatter and crunch of incendiaries showering down on streets and buildings, and (Continued on Page A-22)
LINOBERGfl SAYS RHINELANO U.S.HAONOVOIE GETS HEAVY BLOWS ON WAR ISSUE   IFROM MASSED RAF
Nazis Help Spain Complete Fort to Nullify Gilbraltar
Spain «as reported in reliable advices from Europe today to he completing new artillery emplacements deKigned to close the western entrance to the .Mediterranan and nullify tli Hritish fortress ot <>lhraltar. Twin artillery lines were said to he near completion In the Algecirns region on the Spanish mainland and in Tangiera, across the strait  of Gibraltar.
It was understood that Spanish (ieneralisslmn Francisco Franco had not decided whether to take any action toward attempting lo close the (iihraltur straits nnd probably would not make any decision until and if the (Iermans capture the Suez (anal.
Adolf Hitler was said lo have again invited Franco to adhere to the Axis in a formal treaty hut tli(. Spanish lender declineil, lidding that Spiiin niiist niaintain her present status until the Sue/. question is decided. The mounting nf guns on the .Algecirns Line was completed a few daya ago, it was reported, with (ierninii technicians aiding the Spaniards, Franco, however, was said to have refused to Install Orman raimon on the line.
Vlarships Down 7 Axis Bombers; Pound Benghazi
.Mediterranean Fleet Bombards Harbor To Pave Way for Passage of Convoy Then Beats off Attack of .Airplanes; Loiulon Hails Triumph of Seapower; Admijalty Reports Ao Ship Damage And Loss of One JSaval Air Fighter
By -M. S. HA.NDI.ER
London, May 10 (UP) -The admiralty reported tonight that Brltaln'i Mediterranean fleet had given fresh evidence of its control of the narrow waters of the inland sea, heating off a determind air attack by Axis planes and hurling a thunderous bombardment at the Axis base of Benghazi,
Both actions occurred Thursday, with the Benghazi bombardment aa a curtain raiser.
The Benghazi attack occurred in the early morning hours and wai
crediled    with    inflicting    serious »¦ ¦	
damage to the quays and shipping in the harbor. Two Axis supply ships, intercepted ns they approach
ed  the  harbor,  were  sunk.  One  of them a munitions ship of ,1.000 to 5,000   tons   wns   reported   literally "blown to bits." Protecting Convoy
(The Benghazi bombardment may hnve been Iniinched to aid in the pa.ssage of the British fleet and convoy which was attacked later Thursday by Axis planes, appar¬ ently as it approached the Sicily .Narrows, A Royal Air Force com¬ munique fron\ Cairo reported thnt RAF planes Thursday night carried
pnwer encounter was hailed in Lon¬ don as proving that the Axis hai nnl yet been able seriously to chal¬ lenge Jhe British naval forces in the .Mediterranean in their move¬ ments between (Jibraltar and Alex¬ andria. .May Block Nazi Supplies
It wns belirved possible here that the Mediterrf.nenn Fleet mny now prove able to sufficiently tighten its control of the narrow Sicily Channel tn prevent further dis¬ patch of Nazi reinforcements arrosa that  water  route   to  North   Africa.
The     admiralty     reported     that Irong (letachments of Germnn and
War Summary
Great Britain Saturday night proudly reported that her hattie fleet still rules the inland waters of the Mediterranean but reveal¬ ed ship-loss figures for each one .slipping down the British ways.
London was heavily bombed In another revenge raid.
Evidence of Britain's sea con- tiol of the Mediterranean was re¬ ported by the admiralty, which dis¬ closed that the fleet had success¬ fully fought off a heavy Axis air attack nnd again turned its heavy guns on a major Axis base, this time at B.inghazi, Two Axis ships were sunk.
Both  actions  occurred Thursday and   heartened   the   British   confi¬ dence  in  their nhility to maintain | and reinforce the land forces which I stand  guard  at Suez against  Nazi I pincers movements from the Egyp¬ tian frontier and Greece.
In the air war. the British for | the second night running gave ; Germany a taste of the heavy bom- j bardment which British cities have ' been undergoing for months.! Mannheim was the main tragel but Berlin also was hit.
In the air power versus .sea power test  in  the Mediterranean,  a large fleet   of   Gernian   and   Italian   tor¬ pedo and dive-bomber plans, escort- i cd   by  -Messerschmilt  fighters,  al- ' tempted   sutcc.s.sive   attacks   on   a British convoy in the western Med- j iterranean.
Italinn   reports   said   the   British , force   comprised   two   Inrge   battle¬ ships,   an   nircrafl   carrier,   scv(>al i crui.sers. at lenst 12 destroyers nnd submarine  chasers  nnd  more  thnn 100.00  tons   of   merchant  shipping.. II   apparently   was   nn   important convoy with supplies nnd possibly men being moved east from Gibral- | tar to reinforce the Egyptian gar- , risons. |
The ndmiralty said that the at¬ tacks failed to  inflict  nny damage , on the British  forces, beyond two naval  fighters  shot  down  in   com- ! bat.   The  crew  of  one  plane was | rescuec;. The Axis lost seven planes nnd others were known to be dam¬ aged,  the  admiralty snid.
The report on sea warfare as a whole wns not so optimistic. 11 re¬ vealed that British tonnage losses in March nnd April were running al the rate of about ,^00,000 tons a month a yearly rate of about 6iH»0.i/i)0 tons. Tills' is some ifT»«/,- OOn tons nbove the British replace¬ ment rate.
In the Middle East, there was little action in North Africa and increasing indications that the British are getting the Iraqui sit¬ uation in hand, but there were un¬ verified reports of German troops In Iraq and Iran,
A sharp statement was made In Pari.< by the Vichy government delegate. Fernand de Brinon, warn¬ ing the United States to keep hands off Dakar and hinting that if the United States should enter the war as Britain's ally. France would come back in at Germany's side.    |
SAYS FRANCE WILL FIGHI IF U.S. ENIERSJE WAR
Vichy Delegate Warns America Away from Dakar
out heavy attacks on Benghazi, the jiaiian planes made repeated nt- Beiiinn airdrome and Derna, pos- tacks upon British navnl forces in sibly to impede further interference ,1,^ Western Mediterranean, start- by Axis aviation with the convoy's i„(j Thursday afternnon and con- progress eastward lo Alexandria.) tinning Into the evening. In the 1 In the encounter of the British encounter, the ndmiralty said, no ' warships nnd Axis planes, the ad- damage wns Inflicted upon any of niiralty reported that no ships were (i,p Briti.sh warships and only two damaged   and   seven   Axis   planes „aval fishier planes were lost.   Tha
shot down. Five Axis planes were badly damaged nnd others were known to have heen hit. British losses were twn naval fighters, the crew of one being recovered.
The admiralty said that the big guns of tlie British fleet scored heavy hits  upon  the Axis base  o(
crew   nf  nne  was  saved.
But, said the admiralty, the at¬ tack cost the Axis three torpedo bomber planes, Ihree S79 bombers, and one Junkers 87 dive bnmher shot down and two torpedo bomb¬ ers, one ,IiinKers S7. nne Messer- schmitt  110 and one (^R42 severely
Benghazi in the course of the bom- damaged. Other Axis aircraft were
bardment   which   was   similar   to known to have been damaged less
that   previously   rnrried   out   upon severly,  the  ndmiralty  said,
the equally important Axis base at „^|j. (laj,,,. Hit*
By  RALPH HKIN'/.KV
Vichy, May 10. 'UP) France will fight any United States nl- tempt to oi'cupy Dakar nnd If thej United Stntes enters the war "it Is the common duty of European nations to organize for defense of the common interests of Europe," Fernand de Brinon. delegate of the , Vichy government to Paris, told American  correspondents. 1
The statement by de Brinon, given publicly under big headlines | in the Paris press, came while - Vice-Premier Admiral Jean Fran- [ cols Darlnn was in the former [ capiinl negotiating with the Ger¬ mans on matters of closer col- , lahorallon.
The Paris press. meantime, strongly attacked the United Stales and accused Ambnssndor William D. Leahy of "meddling" and at¬ tempting to prevent Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain from co- | operating with Germany.
The French warsliips, including the big battle cruiser Richelieu, are ready lo defend Dakar, de Brinon said, adding that the French fleet still hns nn import¬ ant role to play. France, he con¬ tinued, was charged under the armistice with defending the French Empire and already has successfull.v defended Dakar against the Brilish-DeGaulle at¬ tempt to take over that section of the African coast.
The presence of Darl.m. who has been bitter toward the British since the attacks on Dakar and Oran, at Paris while the statement was given appenred to give It especial significance.
Tripoli.
Docks Battered
The ndmirnlty snid thnt naval shells from the fleet's heavy bnl- terirs were seen to score hits upon enemy shipping moored to Ben- ghnzi docks.
The two supply ships were Inter-
(The Axis attack on the British navnl fnrces wns reported yester¬ dny by the Italian high command wliich claimed repeated hits on a British battleship, an aircraft car¬ rier, cruisers, destroyers, nnd sev¬ ernl merchant ships In the course nf   three   sepnrate   attacks,   two   by
cepted,    apparently   as   they   were   torpedo bombers  and  one  hy  level proceeding   toward   Benghazi,    un- i bombers).
aware that Ihe British had con¬ centrated their naval strength for a bombardment of the harbor.
One of the supply ve.ssels was of .1,000 tons and the other was a ship of .I.OOO to .1,000 tons loaded with ammunition.
"It wns blown to bits," aaid the admiralty.
The   new   slr|.ower   versus   sea-
One of the biggest In the serle* of attacks, said the admiralty, waa carried out by a formation of 28 dive bombers, escorted by Messer¬ schmilt 110 fighters. This attack was Intercepted by naval fighteri before It could materialize, tht communique said.
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Crowing Damage from RAF Raids Admitted
Berlin. Mannheim Reports Deaths And Destruction
A   New   Serial   Kegiiis:
THK INVISIBLK TRAIL
By JOSEPH CHAHWUK
^ The plane craih thai kilUcI Tex Martin was no aciidenl -Mike Ryan was sure of that. But Mike had designed Ilie plane and his cry of ".Sabo¬ tage!" fell on cynical ears in the case of his employer, Judson March. Mike didn't care who believed him, but he was determined to find the murderer of Tox Martin. And he did, finally, with the help of the girl Tex hnd planned to marry.
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According to the DNB report th« RAF attacked both northwest and southwest Germany and casualtlea were admitted among the civilian population. The bombs dropped By .lACK FI.EISCHKR ' upon Berlin were said bv DNB t«
Berlin, May 10 (UP) Official have fallen on residential areai, German sources tonight reported a destroying several dwellings, growing toll of dead and wounded The high command claimed that and increased damage from the night fighter planes and antl-alr. new Royal Air Force offensive j-raft guns brought down five BrlU which concentrated last night on i.sli bombers and naval artlUerj; Mannheim and included an attack shot down two othera. upon the heart of Berlin.
Civilians were killed in the Ger¬ man capital last night by what the high command called an attack hy individual British planes upon its center. There was also a toll of « niiiidcd.
The official DNB news agency, reporting    the     big    attack    upon
Tell of Ov%ii Raids
The Gernian attack on Brltala was said to have centered on ship¬ ping in the waters around th« British Lsles and various alrfleldt nnd munitions plants. According to DNB, German reconnalasanc* planes late today reported that fire«
iiamburg of'the nTght'hefore. said •'"'¦•ted lasl night were still burn.
that it had been established so far '"K-
that al least 94 jiersons were killed The lastest recoiumlssance photo-
aiiiong the civil population and at graphs,     according     to     Germaa
a workers lanip which was hit. Admit  IJ<r,t.-,,ctlon
However, D.N'B. said' "It musl be reckoned thai the number of vic¬ tims will increase. Thirty-tive per¬ sons are still missiiiR." There was no specific report on the number injured.
The high command reported that last nights RAF attack was cen¬ tered upon Mannheim and other areas In Southwest Germany where destruction in residential areas and fires in industrial plants were ad¬ mitted. The fires, it was added, were quickly extinguished. Both high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped in the British attack.
sources, showed that more than ¦ ""o «, ,iare yards of fie *» -!• fast harbor district had heen de»- tr.iyed about one third of Its total area. Three-fourths of the big Harland and Wolff shipbuilding yards were said to have heen dea> troyed. These yards were said te represent seven per cent Ol Britain's total shipbuilding capa* city.
Dispatclien from Euro¬ pean coiintnea are now tubject   to   cenaorahip.
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