LESSON OF DIEPPE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 5

LESSON OF DIEPPE

Wall Round Europe Won’t Save Axis AIR AND LAND THREAT

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received August 24, 7 p.m.)

LONDON, August 23.

Mr. John Gordon, writing in the "Sunday Express,” says: “Dieppe has proved that no wall that Hitler has built round Europe will keep us out when we decide to go in. Dieppe was probably the strongest point of all the coastal defences. Dieppe brought Hitler's fighters up in the clouds, with the result that we destroyed about onethird of the German air strength in the west.

"If we could force a week or a fortnight of air fighting on such a scale as at Dieppe we might deal the Luftwaffe its death blow, and the moment Germany loses her air strength she is done wherever her land forces are.

“Slowly, but with inevitable certainty, those who have been forecasting supreme domination-by air power are seeing the vision become a fact. Hitler can never again see equality with the R.A.F., far less bold overwhelming superiority. The Luftwaffe can no longer face two campaigns at. once. It cannot bomb Britain and support au army in Russia at the same time.” German eye-witnesses of the raid on Dieppe, speaking over Paris radio, expressed surprise that the Allied forces used tanks. "The beach fortifications were powerful, and there was not a single road from the beach to the town accessible to tanks, but some of the British tanks attempted the seemingly impossible,” one said. “These tanks advanced a little but, finding the position hopeless, they turned baek and ran into the full blast of the German anti-tank guns.” The eye-witnesses added that the raiders fought with amazing stubbornness and stuck to their posts till their last cartridge was spent or till they drew their last breath.

INDUSTRY’S PART IN A SECOND FRONT LONDON, August 23. Trainee labour must be 'Speeded up, inefficient management swgpt away, and prejudice against the training ot women broken down in order to maintain the immense flow of materials for a second front. This declaration was made by Mr. T. W. Agar, general secretary of the Association of Supervisory Staffs and Engineering Technicians, in an address at a conference of technicians, planning engineers, and shop stewards. He added that technicians and skilled workers must follow the invaders and repair damage resulting from a German scorched earth policy.

The conference pledged full co-oper-ation in obtaining the maximum production for a second front