TO WIN WAR

Grey River Argus, 3 June 1943, Page 5

TO WIN WAR

By Bombing

U.S.A. AIR COMMANDER’S

ESTIMATE.

(Rec. 9.15) WASHINGTON, June 1. General Arnold, addressing a graduating class at the United States Military Academy at West Point, said: “We are going to end the war and end it soon, by ; bombing military objectives.” He said: “Such operations, in the end, cut down casualties, and save hundreds of thousands of lives. The enemy cannot take such a terrifying, destructive day and night hammering. They are crying for us to stop. Their morale is already beginning to crack. We are now ready for a decisive year. The handwriting for Germans, Italians, Japanese, is on the wall. But they still are well equipped, and are brilliantly commanded, and are desperate, which always makes a dangerous foe.”

R.A.F. Raids

CIVILIAN QUESTION. RUGBY, June 1. In a statement on bombing Germany, Mr. Morrison said there had always been the official German pretence that bombing attacks on British cities were reprisals for R.A.r. attacks on military objectives in the Rhineland, after the German attack on Holland Belgium and France, inis ignored the terrible German air onslaught on Polish cities and the coldblooded daylight attack on defenceless civilian quarters at Rotterdam, with the object of forcing Holland to surrender. The whole German an activity showed that Germany s policy' was unrestricted bombing ot cities, whenever it suited the German plans, and to suggest Britain started it, was typical Nazi humbug. A Berlin message by the Exchange Telegraph’s” Zurich correspondent says that the evacuation problem, due to the incessant R.A.F. raids has made necessary the appointment of a special administration board, and that it has also been found necessary to forbid voluntary evacuation. Norwegian and Canadian fighters shared the destruction of five enemy aircraft during a sweep to-day over Northern France, says the Air Ministry. Earlier in the day live enemy supply vessels were damaged when Typhoon fighters attacked a convoy off the Dutch coast. One of our aircraft is missing.

DORTMUND RAIDS.

AFFECT GERMAN MORALE.

(Rec. 9.0) LONDON, June 2. The “Daily Express’’ Berne correspondent says: The German press comments frankly on the effect of the recent R.A.F. raids on Dortmund. The newspaper “Westfaelische Zeitung” states: “We are constantly coming up against the problem of morale. What matters now is how the population are bearing .almost an unbearable strain. The doubter and the weakling start rumours, and they cannot distinguish what is important from what is not. Their morale is bad, because they have no hardness or pride. Our task is to watch them.” ESSEN HOUSING SHORTAGE (Rec. 9.0) LONDON. June 2. The Berne correspondent of the British United Press says: A dreary picture has been given by the “Essener National Zeitung” of the total official and public apathy in Essen. The paper stresses the need for energetic measures. It savs that married couples, unmarried men and women, and others are living together in school rooms and halls because of a shortage of proper living quarters. It says: After such catastrophes as we have experienced, camps are necessary for collecting those people requiring new accommodation in our town. However, there are still a number of emergency quarters in which the inmates can remain indefinitely.