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British bomb Berlin
Monday, October 14, 1940 www.onwar.com
Over Germany... RAF bombers raid Berlin.
Over Britain... About 240 German aircraft conduct a raid on London.
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October 14th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM: Battle of Britain: At night London suffers its heaviest raid thus far. Coventry is also bombed.
Losses: Luftwaffe, 4; RAF, 0.
Destroyer HMS Belvoir is laid down.
Submarine HMS P-39is laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
VICHY FRANCE: Married women are banned from jobs in public services.
GERMANY: Daily Keynote from the Reich Press Chief:
The British raids on Berlin (or other German territory) should not be presented in such an exaggerated form that the reader is bound to get the impression that half of Berlin has been destroyed. But by the same token, the destruction in London should not be depicted so as to suggest that London has already been razed to the ground: in each case the possibility of intensified attacks must be preserved.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: As the fleet heads for Alexandria, cruiser HMS Liverpool is badly damaged by a torpedo hit from Italian aircraft.
FAR EAST: American fuel stocks are moved from Shanghai and Hong Kong to Singapore.
U.S.A.: The Department of State announces that the U.S. passenger liners SS Monterey, SS Mariposa, and SS Washington are being sent to the Far East to repatriate American citizens from that region in view of prevailing “abnormal conditions” there. This move is made because of the shortage of accommodations on the ships already engaged in the Far East trade. SS Monterey is to go to Yokohama, Japan, and Shanghai, China while SS Mariposa will proceed to Shanghai and Chinwangtao, China, and Kobe, Japan. (Jack McKillop)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-137 damages HMS Cheshire. (Dave Shirlaw)