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THE CHINA, MAIL, JANUARY 18, 1941.
RAIDERS SOLE AIM TO SHAKE
MORALE
(By An Air Correspondent)
RELIABLE EVIDENCE IS AVAILABLE TO SHOW THAT GERMAN AIR STRATEGY IS NOW BASED ALMOST ENTIRELY ON POLITICAL CON- SIDERATIONS, AS FAR AS THE BOMBING OF LONDON IS CONCERNED.
The original purpose was, as in Belgium and France, to get the population of the towns on to the roads, where they would be exposed to machine- gunning and hostile action by parachutists, who would also have hampered communications in other ways.
This phase, intended to,
spread panic among the MAYFAIR
people and the authori~|
ties, was checkmated be- FLAT?
cause the R.A.F. prevent-
ed it from developing and -NOT ME!
people obeyed injunctions to "stay put."
The present attacks are now
Even people bombed out
known to be intended to break of their homes will not morale by producing an anti- Churchill reaction among the in- habitants of the poorer quarters
of London.
The hope of invasion is not there will soon call for
yet dead, but
bo
碹
definite
peace,
though a conqueror's peace by the German people.
Crucial Phase
leave the Isle of Mayfair.
"CRASHING
THROUGH"
While a film called "Crashing
Through"
was being shown at a cinema in London, an incendiary
bomb
crashed' through the roof:
It fell in the circle, but the audience re- mained calmly in their seats while the cinema's own fire man extinguished the bomb.
GESTAPO
Dog's for SPY ON
CHILDREN
"Well," she said, "whatever would do with a flat in Eaton-aquare? Where do you
think I should do me shopping The scene
-Harrods?"
is a kinder-
garten in Amsterdam the Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Parlia- mentary Secretary to the Minis-morning after the recent try of Home Security, told this broadcast by Princess Ju-
liana.
The immediate phase is recog-story to the National Council of nised in Germany as a crucial Women in London,
one. Pilots are being told that "We have large houses in May- the present form of savagery will fair whole strings of them-- be the kindest in the end, and but you cannot persuade people
Fuehrer that the
understands to go," she said. their feelings, but he knows best, and they must obey.
Military, industrial and railway objectives are listed and explain- ed, but it is made clear that they are secondary, and merely form a plan within a plan. If encoun- tered they should be dealt with, but a bomb on an East End street is as good as one on the docks, perhaps better.
Poorly-Trained Crews
The pilots are not, however, their own masters; morcover, they are not all highly trained. There have been cases when such
Mies Wilkinson sald that
when she was standing among the calvage from her own bomb. ed flat the charwoman from next door sympathised and said: "Eh, Miss, when we get through all this shan't we be tough 7"
Miss Wilkinson added that peo- ple with Anderson shelters must use them or surrender them.
Two million people, she said, are having to sleep outside their own homes and the question of deep shelters is under active con-
sideration.
specialists as machine-gun- DUKE OF WINDSOR'S
ners have been posted to the Luftwaffe service from other arms without their being con- sulted and sent up without training.
FRIEND
Captain Tom Hobbs, who died at Market Harborough, was the Unless a crew is composed of father of Mr. Reggie Hobbs, the first-rate men, they succumb, on racehorse trainer and grandfather meeting with resistance, to the of Bruce Hobbs, who
won the temptation to hover over the out- | Grand National on Battleship in skirts of London or over open 1938, when only seventeen. country and drop their bombs .Captain Hobbs, recognised as there.
one of the finest riders to hounds in the country, was a personal friend of the Duke of Windsor when as Price of Wales he hunted in Leicestershire.
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Nazis Get Drunk German pilots who bomb British civilians are not proud of their ex- ploits. Those interviewed by Richard Boyer, now. writing a series of articles on his experiences in Ger- many, told him:
"We get drunk after our civi- Han bombings," one of them said. "We got drunk after Rotterdam. We didn't want to do it. It was all a mistake. If they had sur- rendered just 10 minutes, before they did Rotterdām never would have been bombed,”
s German pilote expressed- healthy, respect for the Spitfire, but, nevertheless, claimed, tha “Germany had completa -
of the air, only the stup tish would not recognise facto
*:"What can you do with:
like that?”ma pilot kept The British were comple ingin character
acter doesn't It-tio admit Beateri?",
"How many of you listened to our beloved Princess's broadcast?" asked the teacher with a smile. Nearly every child in the stood up.
room
re- That night, according to
the ports which have reached Dutch in London, the home of overy child who stood up was visited by Gestapo agents and them any radio set found in was confiscated.
Grain Blazes
This is just one example of the of the Gestapo growing activity in Holland, in a vain attempt to quell the Dutch spirit and espe- cially to wipe out Holland's "sixth column," a patriotic Dutch organ- isation which works in secret to sabotage the plans of the German invaders.
"The Germans have completely dropped their mask of friendliness towards us," says a source in Rot- terdam.
Perhaps the fact that Amster- dam had the biggest grain ware- house fire in its history.. may have something to do with this. * "The cause of this enormous fire is still officially 'unknown' in Am- sterdam, but there are many, in- cluding the Nazis, who feel that a solution of the problem could be supplied without difficulty," says the "Frij Nederland," the Dutch newspaper published in London.
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