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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 29, 1941,
By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY
YEP STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA YEARS AGO THEY
FOUND A SHIP ADRIFT WITHOUT A SOUL ON
BOARD--- EVERYONE
MISSING!
AND NOT A THING ON BOARD WAS MISPLACED-- EVERY- THING WAS IN PERFECT ORDER
AND---
DAT'S AWFUL!
GOODNESS!
WE CAN'T TAKE ANY CHANCES
LIKE THEY DID!
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And every at- tack made on a town of indus- trial importance, every bomb aim- ed at a vital link
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MUNITION & OIL REFINERIES AIRCRAFT WORKS & STORAGE MILITARY STORES (254 ATTACKS & POWER STATIONS
316 ATTACKS).
AERODROMES & SEAPLANE BASES
(199 ATTACKS)
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RAILWAYS
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BY HUGH S. JOHNSON
Any one who doubts the in- tensity of our air offensive.on Germany should study this map. showing the targets we have bombed on German soll from the boginning of the war to January 1, 1941,
At the end of September the number of attacks on target arens stood at 900. In those three months the R.A.F. carried out 500 more-in other words, more than half the number they were able to make in the first thirteen months of war. And by "attack" is meant the bombing of a whole target aren, not merely a single objective,
The number f individual towns in Germany bombed by British planes is 270. This, of course, does not include attacks on invasion ports and similar targets outside Germany, or attacks on Italv.
war
The Germans bomb indis criminately. Do the British? This map gives the answer. The pattern traced by the British bombs falling on Ger many follows exactly the pattern of the industrial framework on which Germany's
effort depends.
Every bomb is designed to break a bone or pierce an artery Prac- in Germany's industry. tically the only bare places on the map are those innocent of big manufacturing centres.
The Germans have made fran- tic efforts to move their more vulnerable factories.eastward- but the heart of their production machine is still the congested Ruhr area, with Krupps' great home town of Essen in the mid- ⚫ die.
Coal, steel, arma factories, chemical works and oil plants are crowded together in this vital area from Munster in the north to Cologne in the south.
That is why it has been given a more severe hammering than any part of the Reich-so severe that all the details of its 500 raids cannot be crowded into this map.
In the last three months raids Jon Germany have increased by half. But raids on the Ruhr have increased by two-thirds,
In the top right-hand corner
If his voice had been only of the black area showing the [N the two weeks just past, It is perhaps beside the Gallipoli also proved dis-
my bedtime
reading, point to remark that Mr astrous, but he argues well partially heeded from 1933 to as Ruhr is Hamm, and its now which frequently extends to Churchill's is abreast of the that it need not have been so. Inte na 1937 the present world famous marshalling yards. It on some pie-eyed best in English literature of To what extent he was res- catastrophe could certainly have has the honour of being the detective novel, has been any age, in vigour, style and ponsible for the 1918 thrust been avoided. He stated and R.A.F.'s most raided targel. switched to two aspects of content. That may add un-through Salonika, which proved his case in advance in They have been there eighty- the history of England. One dully to its fascination, but it broke the Central Powers, is economic, military and diploma- two times,
The Ruhr is only 350 miles from is the whole panorama, to doesn't subtract at all from not clear, but he certainly tie policy. His predictions on its substance. It is an favoured it. Many students the military effect of the oc-
cupation and later fortification London. A hundred miles further up which my short cuts are
of the Rhineland and almost the Rhine is another great munitions arca along the line Frankfurt-Man- Dickens' Child's History and advocacy very cogent in will always believe that the
every other principal Nazi de- neheim-Stuttgart. Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill logic, thoroughly document-1939 declaration of war over
More difficult still to reach is Ger- velopment now seem almost un- and Rewards and Fairies ed in every case. In all his Poland was one of the most
many's other great munitions and oll of controversies hideous mistakes in timing canny in their correctness,
centre around Leipzig, 350 miles series. This confession dozens
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from London. Here the Leuna plant, probably dates my mentality, about British policy and de-in all history, but, however
All that is water over the normally turning out half a million tons of syntholle oll every year, has but I have been told by more fence, convincingly buttress- he favoured it, his was not
# tremendous pounding-ten than one great historian ed by compelling facts and the principal responsibility. dam. Brilliant as was that per-
So much for whatever the formance of his, it is as nothing times. that,
figures.
Altogether 60 per cent, of Ger- however romantic,
compared with his war lender- these quick and simple
unfavourable side of the re-ship of his country in her man's oil plants have received atten- tion. Even Politz, on the mouth of been attacked six sources will lead nobody far This isn't to say that he cord may be. Turn to his greatest crisis. It is so master the Oder, has astray from the truth. The was always right. Some-position and pleading from ly us to seem incredible. It times-meaning a round trip of 1,300 Berlin, nearly as far away, no other aspect is Mr Winston times, at critical moments, the opening of the Versailles needs no comment at all and miles. Churchill's running contro-he was so right that his logic Peace Conference to this this long windup is just to base and thirty-five visits and all sorts of objectives in the city have been bombed, versial comment on the and action decided favour-day, and especially the re-
Win, lose or draw, I wonder period from 1914 to this ably to his country the cord in his books, "The
if, when this long agony is over, "Arms and
he will not be written in history date. In his I have just re- ultimate issue of the earlier Aftermath," soaked myself every word war-as for example, his the Covenant," "The World as one of the two of three great-Bremen and Hamburg, have been at- and not counilng the recent tremen- published in book form-mobilisation of the fleet in Crisis" and "The Unknown est products of the Anglo-Saxon tacked, up to the first day of this year reread and compared it with 1914. Sometimes he was War." The two books first race in its entire record either dous raid on Bremen, sixty-one and
in England or America, That nity-two times respectively.
Of the 1,500 objectives so far my own experience and in-very wrong, as in the Ant-mentioned are for fore-sight, either or is entirely justified formation and a quick re- werp excursion in 1914 and statemanship and even clair- because we can be pardoned in named in Air Ministry communiques, ways and marshalling yards. Another slant at the whole history of in the Narvik disaster in voyance among the most re- our pride that his mother was more than a quarter have been rail-
an American.
sixth are ships, docks, and cannis. England.
this war. The adventure at markable in literature.
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