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* THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 20, 1941.
GERMAN DREAD OF FUTURE AIR RAIDS
Wallace Deuel, the Ber- lin correspondent of the "Chicago Daily News," who has returned to the United States, has a spe- *cial reason for thinking that Berliners are being by particularly affected the R.A.F. bombing raids. In addition to all other reasons for being disturbed, if no worse. by the raids, Berliners, he writes, had this further enson; they had been officially assured for months that it would be impossible for a to 'plane to get single enemy Berlin even when the French Air Force was still intact and even when the Allies could start their raids from the Franco-German frontier.
When the RAF alone began to bomb Berlin, therefore, and to; do it all the way from England, the disillusionment of the Berlin- “།' was great. They perceived they had been exi to about the porsability of being bombed, and were considerably shaken by this atr
Other Lies
But they also porevived that af they had been lied to about this question it was also highly pro- hable they had been lied to abul other questions almost of end
iraprtance, and they were even
or shaken by this.
The rest of the Reich, too, has been shaken by the British bomb- ing raids, not shaken to a degree i which endangers the people's or willingness to go on abdily fighting the war, but sufficiently for them
inis- to have serious
look givings and, above all, to forward with drend to the time: when the British will be able to bomb the Reich in much greater
• force.
The amount of damage done to material objectives in the Reich is the most closely guard- ed of military eecrets. No more than a dozen men In the Air in Berlin know the Ministry full extent of it.
Serious Damage
have
But this much at least is de- finitely true the British bombed scores of military objec- tives in various parts of the Reich and the occupied territories, and in some cases this damage is seri- bus, though in no case comparable to the damage the Nazis done to Britain,
Considerably more important than the material damage caused by the raids, however, is the ef-
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