LE CREUSOT RAID HAILED

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 247, 20 October 1942, Page 5

LE CREUSOT RAID HAILED

PROMISE OF DEVELOPMENTS. LANCASTER A TERRIBLE MENACE.

B.O.W.

RUGBY, Oct. 19.

The destruction of the Schneider works at Le Creusot is greeted in the British Press as a very remarkable operation which promises yet greater developments. Every detail, says the Daily Telegraph, encourages the hope that contrary to the theory so far generally accepted as a result of experience in the Battle of Britain, it may be possible to devise a successful technique for heavy daylight attacks on targets in Germany, and thus, weather permitting, keep up a continuous bombing of the enemy day and " night. The Telegraph also notes the contrast in the losses with the Augsburg raid, while the Daily Express says: "Its eight-ton bomb load made the Lancaster the back-bone of the big night raids, and its speed and fire-power make it as terrible a menace in daylight as in the dark." The News Chronicle points out that the raids on Lille and Le Creusot were partly inspired by the same tactical idea — the dislocation of Germany's internal communication s. "The Lille works and the Schneider factories both manufacture locomotives, though the Schneider works also produce heavy armaments on a large scale," the newspaper states. "There is a very new concern which turns out locomotives in big numbers. The damage done there in two raids will have serious effects throughout the Reich, and that is why the Allies are putting all they know into smashing communications. "The bombing of engineering works, railway centres and marshalling yards, and the shooting up of locomotives in northern France, are all aspects of a single co ordinatecl plan. It is already yielding good dividends. When Germany is callea on to fight on two or more fronts, its full value will for the first time be clearly revealed."