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R.A.F. reconnaissance last week gave evidence that bombing had cut the Ruhr's industrial output 35%. Some of the more important centers had suffered even more. More than 1,000 acres of Düsseldorf, western Germany's most important commercial city, were devastated in a single raid on June 11. Not only its factories, but administrative and engineering quarters, which serve much of the whole Ruhr sector, were destroyed. Seven days after the raid fires could still be seen smoldering...
...entire valley is crisscrossed by vital rail lines, virtually every Ruhr raid has struck hard at transport facilities. All the valley's traffic is now badly disrupted. Wholesale evacuation of refugees from the bomb-strafed centers has further complicated the mess. As the Ruhr produces roughly three quarters of Germany's coal, four fifths of her coke and two thirds of the nation's raw iron and steel, the effect of transport disruption on German industry as a whole is great...
...their depression. To questioning police. Malmberg and his audience would explain it was Belgian music. Last month Malmberg was playing in Dortmund when the British struck that city with two of the war's most devastating air raids, then cut off its water supply by blasting the Ruhr's Mohne and Eder dams. Malmberg lived through those raids and, returned to Stockholm, told this story to Correspondent Sten Hedman of the Toronto Star...
...British learned the same lesson in a heavy night raid on Bochum. which followed close on the heels of the American attacks. In the Ruhr Valley they found German anti-aircraft defenses greatly strengthened since the bombing of the Mohne and Eder dams (TIME, May 31). They brought back reports of ack-ack guns apparently massed miles deep along the industrial center...
...last week of May, in four raids on Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen and Wuppertal, the R.A.F. dropped about 6,500 tons. Said Sir Arthur after Dortmund got its packet of 2,000 tons: "In 1939 Göring promised that not a single enemy bomb would reach the Ruhr. Congratulations on having delivered the first 100,000 tons on Germany to refute him. The next 100,000, if he waits for them, will be even bigger and better bombs, delivered even more accurately and in much shorter time...