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September 4, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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RAF Leave Berlin Shaken Axis Shipping Losses By Fires & Explosions Greater Than Britain's
Special to the "Telegraph"
LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter).The spell of German in- vincibility which paralysed the will of the world a year ago has now been finally broken." declared the British Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair. He was replying to a message from the Battle of the Atlantic, or more ex- King which read:
"The two hard years that lie behind us have left us all un-
LONDON, Sept. 3 (UP).—An especially heavy and successful aerial attack on Berlin by Stirlings, Halifaxes and Manchesters last night is described in an Air Ministry communique which states that "there were enormous explosions when some of our heaviest bombs were dropped and very large fires were caused at the main rail-see justice and freedom way station."
The communique pointed out that the raiders hid Arst to penetrate a ring of clouds outsido of the city, but once this had been accomplished there were clear patches over the elty it- gelf.
"Right Into The City" The navigator of one of the Halifax bombers said. "Searchlights were trying to pick us up all the way and there seemed to be about 59 is one bunch alone. Shells burst close to us, some of them sending out clouds of smoke which in the light locked almost like barrage balloons."
He stated that after flying thick clouds, they suddenly entered
found our way right into the elty.
n
belief that Russlan planes may have participated with the R.A.F. in the Taid.
of roar It In reported that the planen was audible even above the
terrifle" gunfire.
Canadians In Britain Reinforced
RADIO
shaken in our determination to
established throughout world and I cordially apprecialo the loyal assurances of all who are present at your gathering to-day."
aware
that
the In
mercantile losses but how far we
pressively, the "Battle of the Seas," says "The Times" naval correspon- desit, is not a comparison of naval or re-have succeeded in maintaining Brl- thetish sco trame and sweeping enemy
traffic from the sens.
Judged by that standard, the Royal Navy, ably seconded by the Royal Air Force in the areas accessible to
well it, has
held lis own. The pre- else figures in this sphere have not, until recently, been made public on the round that they would be useful to the enemy, but in the last few days a report from Ankara through the Columbla Broadcasting System
recently weekly im put the average ports into Great Britain at 030,000 tons and average losses of ships in convoy at no more than one in 240.
Points from Sinclair's speech were; ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.45Our bombers got to Berlin last night
metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)
and hit the city hard." There could Schubert's A Minor Sonata: be no doubt that the Germans were
fully
Prime Feuermann and Moore
words, "this is only the Photographs showed widespread destruction wherever Britain's new heavy bombs fell and they would go on falling more and mare, night after night until the German people, shat- tered and disillusioned, saw for a Quota-second time that war was not worth while, Such was Britain's plan and in the at- there was big progress
Radio Programme Broodcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 kes and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 and LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter)8.30-11.15 p.m. on 0.52 m.c.'s 'ner Thousands of Canadian troops ar-second.
6.0 Indian Programme. rived in England to-day to join the With them
Closing Local Stock Canadian volunteers. came American volunteers and more tions. American nurses.
They
welcomed by Rear-
were
6.45
clearing We saw the river and We dropped bombs and saw them Admiral Sir Arthur Bromley and Artur Schnabel and The Pro Arth Vance towards that achievement.
burst among the industrial buildings and left fires burning"
Major-General T. J. Price, Com
the Canadian volunteers in
Frankfurt As Well Frankfurt was also hehvlly bomb- ed. "On both sides of the River message from Mr W. L. Mac
King, the
Conadian Prime General by
rend Wag
6.47 A Dvorak Programme. Quintet in A Major, Op. 01.... Quartet: Songs My Mother Taught Me... Dino Borgloll (Tenor) with Ivor Newton (Piano, Violin); Indian Lament....Fritz Kreisler (Violin)
Malae large res sprang up and Minister. steadily grow as our aircraft bombed Price. It sald: "You have come to
Britain into them."
to help in breaking the enslave so many Zicate. One Stirling bomber Captain sald: bonds that "We ran right across the city from countries in Europe. In this and northcost and you will be defending the citadel
Fires sprang ot freedom. No greater
the southwest to dropped our bombs.
up almost Immediately and there could fall to you."
was a very good fire too in the centre
of the city. Our rear gunner could
with Piano accomp.
7.30
flicting they
Shipping Sunk
on
These figures are an illuminating antidote to the German plcture of starving Britain and an ocean swept clear of shipping.
U-Boat Mastered
by
The chief agent of destruction st se has been the U-boat, used from life first regardless of the fate of pas- Sinclair sald the RAF were In- sengers or other non-combatant sca-
Germans the
and
larers,
Its Initial advantage waned Italians greater shipping losses than as the defensive measure of the con-
Britain. inflicting on
voy was brought into operation and were The Philharmonic Orchestra, "The Barber Of Seville" Overture They are getting a double dose of in small craft equipped with the (Rosstal); Waltz and Finale frain the medicine which Hitler prescribed Asdic device, the U-boat met its
matcft caused Serenade." Op. 48 (Tchaikowsky);
the defeat of troyed 91 Axis ships in the North scurte, together with the multiplica- Richard Strauss); Hungarian Dance Sea. Salome's Dance (from "Salome for us. In July we damaged or des- match, but the depletion of British
France, Mediterranean Adriatic and No. 1 and 3 (Brahms).
408,000 amounting to
tons and tion of U-boats and development of honour 8.0 London-The News.
8.15 London Relay War Com- 52 ships in addition of unknown a new technique of combined air and The Coastal Command is underwater attack swung the balance tonnage.
Battle of the Atlan- in the other direction. transferring the
Only of recent months has it been i Llc from a German attack on British
on redrested as escort craft again mul Dally shipping into a British
German shipping and victory in this tiptled with the maturing of building battle will be the turning point to-programmes begun at the outbreak of war and the development of new In Awards victory in the war.
methods against air raiders at sea.
see it for fifteen minutes afterwards, MEXICO-BRITAIN.
Somebody else must have bonbed
our fire because we saw several more explosions in it. Then, after a time, we saw a hell of a great explosion and a fire started,"
mentary,
Post
German Propaganda. RELATIONS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
8.25 London Relay Listening
in Examination of Points
8.30 Programme Summary, 8.32 Tilo Schipa (Tenor) LONDON, Sept. 3 (UP)-A-Spanish Programme.
9.0 thoritative circles commenting on
Local Time Signal and An- The communique stated that other the statement made by the Mexican notincements.
9.02 towns in western Germany which Foreign Minister. Senor Padilla, 10
Studio-To-night We Pre- were attacked included Mannheim day sakl
that they had no knowledge seat."
relations be-
**Mannheim And Ostend
as well as the port of Ostend. Nine of any new move to open discussions British bombers are missing..
Other sources indicated that the IL.A.F. largely used the new type of
to
tween
attack
"The Atlantic battle would require probably for some time to come an
Nazi Warships Damaged. immense concentration of attention effort 10 frustrate Germon and
In this second year of war, yel attacks. A Review Of New Records.
"That it is not going too badly for other forces have preyed on British 9.45-10.0 News in French (on us however, is shown by the fact shipping but they too have been well Admiral Lutzow and Short Wave Only).
firstly that the sinkings of British held. The 0.45 The Lecuona Cuban Boys. ships in July were the lowest in any Scheer, sister ships of the Admiral Blue ultitude on-such-resumption fleche in Varquez); Rumba Foxtrot secondly, during the list ten weeks severely damaged in attempts to re Rumba Rumba Bleue (Cre-months for moore than a year and Graf Spee, were both torpedoed and the open zea. The henvy bombs in the latest attack on Berlin, had ailed that diplomatic ob-
|-Coubanakan (Molses Simens); the average weekly rate of merchan- Conga-La Havane A Paris (Cre-dise imported from overseas excccd-cruiser 1lipper found her quarry tou well defended last Christmas Day when she attacked a convoy in the; reached London that during the servers were hitherto of the opinion dele); Rumba-Cachita (Hernandez).ed 850.000 tons.""
that Britain, while willing to restore 10.0 London-The News and News relations with Mexico, was not pre-Commentary,
Atlantic. pared to do so on terms which would 10.15 Dance. Musle and Varlety. leave British concerns in Mexico in
Regarding the new type of bomb, it is noteworthy that reports have
recent attack on Dusseldorf that one of the "beautiful bombs" alone shattered 900 houses.
Americans Display News
# NEW YORK, Sept. 3.(Beuter) Berlin's Intest pounding from the R.A.F. is described in the American Press in front page stories, with huge full-width streamer headlines.
"Heaviest R.A.F. Rald Smashes At Berlin" says the New York Journal and American.
►
describe
restore
diplomatic Mexico and Britain. They emphasised the fact that the
been made clear.
It is recalled
In less favourable position than those
of other countries.
New Zealander's
Humanitarianism
11.0
London "War dents"-Alan. Befl.
11.16 Close DownS
Night Bomber Attacks
The battleships Scharnhorst and Referring to German night-bomber Correspon attacks over Britain, Sinclair said Gneisenau had the same experience three months later and were chased; their engunities when they broke off into Brest by naval forces to be kept the bombing to attack Russia were
there ever since by the effects of on some nights over ten
cent. per renewal of RA.F. bombing. Britain must expect a German night attacks but they would French
daylight British Frontler, Sept. 3 pay
pay dearly. The the offensive kept large forces of (Reuter).-General Bergeret,
of Ger-
Fatal Nazi Shortage
On
fuel shortage.
**
Fate of Bismarck
The fule of the Bismarck, the most powerful battleship,
WELLINGTON, Sept. 3 (Reuter). | Vichy aviation chief, who it was re- man fighters on the Western front world's "Berlin Shaken All Night By Ter--A Government Bill abolisting the ported two months ago believed that which would otherwise have been when she attempted a similar raid in rine R.A.F. Raid" say's the New York death sentence, for murder and sub- Germany would win the war, recent-fighting against the Russians. The May, will be fresh in the minds of World-Telegram.
silluting life imprisonment and niso ly expressed his conviction in a H.A.F. was working night and day in all her consort, the cruiser Frinz.
that Germany was an unremitting offensive to support Euren,
only the Stories
buildings and abolishing Blogging been read for conversation windows shaking and rattling all the first time in the New Zealand bound to lose owing to eventual the Russiast ally who was fighting so bilish preoccupation with the bigger night, and some pupers express the House of Representatives,
maguilcently and the R.A.F. would
the expedient of ship to emulate rudge no sacrifice to help them.
and the too has other battleships and "Our admiration for the Russians taken cover at Brest. dogged fight 1st unbounded but
In the Mediterranean, the results Russia won't win the Wor for us have been hardly less decisive and Our gratitude to the United States the ascendancy over the Italian Fice! for all she doing and promises to do is unbounded but the United States won't
win the war for us. Our chief tanger is a tend
is à tendency to relax our The loss of Crete increased British efforts when our prospects improve, dimeulties in the eastern basin bul to think somebody else will make the while British convoys have been effort and sacrifice and win the war for us. Complacency is our greatest danger to-day. For victory we must rely on ourselves."
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Measure of Success LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter)-The true measure of the progress of the
asserted by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and Admiral Sir James Somerville has been unmistakable.
taken through whenever the need has arisen Italian communications both with with Tripoll and
Italian with garrisons Installed by favour of the Germans in the Aegean Islands have
Increasingly harassed been British air and underwater attacks.
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