YEAR'S RAIDS ON REICH

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 56, 3 September 1943, Page 5

YEAR'S RAIDS ON REICH

96,000 Tons of Bombs

LONDON, September 2. It is announced that in the fourth year of the war, which ends tonight, the Bomber Command dropped 96,000 tons of bombs on Germany. This is nearly double the weight of bombs dropped by the K.A.F. on Germany in the three previous years put together. /

Frenchmen will see far more vicious battles than anything that was experk enced in 1940. The Allied air attacks against French towns are only a foretaste of things to come."

The "Evening Standard" says: "In Russia Hitler is faced with the most resounding defeat in military history. This is the cardinal moment of the war. Russia's demand for a second front cannot be obscured by speculations about third, fourth, and fifth fronts. The term 'second front' refers to the necessity for compelling the Germans to fight on two1 major fronts in Europe, and not, as some illiterate people seem to suopose, on a number of fronts on which the Allies fight. Russia's demand is for a second front against the Germans at a point where the Germans would be obliged to withdraw 50 divisions from Russia. It is a demand for a diversionary movement on a scale large enough to ensure that the possibility of the final defeat of Hitler in the east can be translated into positive achievement."