SCOURGE REICH BY BOMBING

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 258, 30 July 1942, Page 5

SCOURGE REICH BY BOMBING

Air Leader’s Threat REVOLT THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE Coming Raid Tempo (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 28. In a broadcast message to the German people tonight the Chief of the Bomber Command, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, warned _ them that soon their country will be bombed every night and every day. He said that the heavy bombing of Germany was not a revenge, adding: “We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for you to go on with the war. “That is our object. We shall pursue it remorselessly, city by city—Lubeck, Rostock, Cologne. Emden, Bremen, Wilhelmshaven. Duisburg, Hamburg, and the list will grow longer and longer. “Let the Nazis drag you down to disaster with them if you will. That is for you to decide. A thousand bombers to one town like Cologne destroy a third of it in an hour. We are coming by day and by night. Ao part of the Reich is safe.” When the British and American production came to its flood, all that the Germans had suffered would be as nothing, Air Marshal Harris said. ' “I speak fraulJy about whether we will bomb single military targets or whole cities. We prefer to hit factories, shipyards, and railways, but the workers therein live nearby, and therefore we hit your houses and hit you. We regret the necessity, but the makers of submarine gear must take war risks like our seamen, whose ships are attacked by their products. The Coventry aircraft workers and their wives and families were just as much civilians as the aircraft workers of Rostock, but Hitler wanted it that way.” He warned the Germans that, if they believed the Nazis’ claims that the British losses were so great that the raids would have to be discontinued, they would d» disappointed. “I, who command the British bombers, will tell you what our losses are,” he said. “Less than 5 per cent, of the bombers which we send over Germany are lost; The percentage of loss does very little to even check the constant increase which is ensured by the ever-in-creasing output of our own and the American factories. “Rain, Blow or Snow.” “America has only just entered the fight in Europe. The first squadrons, the forerunners of a whole fleet, have reached England from the United States. Do you realize what it will mean to you when they bomb Germany also? In one American factory alone they are already turning out one four-engine bomber able to carry four tons of bombs to any part of the Reich every two hours. There are scores of other such factories in the United States. You cannot bomb those factories. Your submarines cannot even try to prevent those American bombers from crossing tlic Atlantic. “Soon we shall he coming every, night and every day, rain, blow or snow—we and the Americans. I have just spent eight months in America, so I know exactly what is coming. We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end if you make it necessary for us to do so. You cannot prevent it, and you know it. You have no chance. You could not defeat us in 1940, when we were almost unarmed and stood alone. Your leaders were crazy to attack Russia as well as America. “But then your leaders are crazy. Ihe whole world thinks so, excepting Italy. How can you hope to win now we are getting stronger and have both Russia and America as allies while you are getting more and more exhausted. Rein'ember this: No matter how far your armies march, they can never get to England. They could not get there when we were unarmed. Whatever their victories, you still have to settle the air war with us and America. You can waver win that, but we are doing so already now. “One final thing. It is np to you to end the war and the bombing. You can overthrow the Nazis and make peace. It is not. true that we plan a peace of revenge. That is a German propaganda lie. But we shall certainly make it impossible for any German Government to start total war again, and is not that ns necessary for your own interests as ours?”