BLITZES BY R.A.F. HAY HERALD SECOND FRONT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 177, 29 July 1942, Page 5

BLITZES BY R.A.F. HAY HERALD SECOND FRONT

• AMERICAN OPINION

Estimated Strength Of Striking Force

trn'T.l Press Association.-Copy right Rcr "' n • NEW YORK, Ju 1?28 Now Vork Post. It estimate?®,{.« nrMi-1 disposes 5000 first linn h hnmi..r.ooo medium bornbers^nd more l.ghers per square mile of "ts territory than any other belligerent -all this apart from the Amfrican air filters in Britain. 'encan

Oncp started, an air offensive cannot, let up, even for a few hours; It must he carried on until the opposing fighter craft have been oer manrntlv downed and communications smashed beyond repair Three weeks of such an assault would make tivolv'easy 6 ° army com Para-

When one considers the R.A.F can have no pood reason for holdine so many of its bombers at home except to organise them for an allout assault on enemy territory, the New \ork Post says, it will be seen that August promises the greatest air attacks in history. * The Scripps-Howards newspaper syndicate continues to advocate a second front, by the destruction of German cities from the air. It recalls that in the heaviest raids over London no more than 350 tons of bombs were dropped, and the bombs dropped in the two Coventry raids totalled 275 and 400 tons. The British 1000-bomber fleets dropped 3000 tons at a time—enough to destroy ten square miles. Labour Peer's Warning Lord Straholgi, in a speech in London, warned the Labour party that there would be a deep and extensive political reaction in Britain if the Russian Army were crippled without Britain and America's growing forces in the west striking a blow. Britain had had 13 and America eight months to prepare for this contingency and the British public would not accept excuses for the seeming inaction. Labour should leave the Government and prepare to form an alternative Government in the meantime fully supporting the war effort. The News-Chronicle attacks Mr. Ernest Bevin's statement that advocates of a second front are causing division in Britain. It says his statement will not be happily received in Moscow. "Strategy is the Government's business, but winning the war as quickly as possible is the business of us all." The Berlin news agency announced that General von Rundstedt's technical staff has completed a detailed inspection of extensive and deeply echeloned fortifications along the French and North Channel coast. The fortifications constitute a system of most modern defence works, on which tens of thousands of skilled workers have been employed for two years.