WIN THE WAR QUICKLY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 133, 25 July 1941, Page 8

WIN THE WAR QUICKLY

"ENORMOUS HURT" What is important is not mereh' to win the war, but to win it quickly, says the Sunday Times. Every day that it lastse normous hurt is being done to the heritage of Europe's civilisation. Take the question of buildings alone. Under the conditions of ai-" war buildings, of no military but much cultural importance are bound to suffer accidental damage from time to time. But under the German mode of waging air warwhich is to fly ovor the centres of great cities and there bomb indiscriminately from a great height— their destruction becomes not an accident but a system. The only limit is the duration of the attacks. The more nights the Germans' lly over, the more treasures perish for eA r cr. But take another question: the barbarities daily wreaked on some of the conquered nations. What the Germans have done in Poland dur ing the last twelve months is perhaps the worst horror that any white people have perpetrated. And it still goes on. Death by starvation; death by exposure to cold; death by: torture and outrage un-s-peakabta; the purposed extermination not of hundreds of thousands but of millions. To cut short even a month of tha* agony would be a mercy beyond computing. Crime so monstrous can-« not triumph. Hitler will be defeated. But the sooner the madman jis caged the better for the world its future.. At present he runs furiously amok, ruining the heritage of past centuries and sowing broadcast for future ones the sieeds of new find terrible hatreds between peoples.