A YEAR OF WAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24424, 9 October 1940, Page 7

A YEAR OF WAR

NAZI HOPES SHATTERED HEAVY LOSSES SUFFERED BRITAIN’S ARMIES READY LONDON, Oct. 6. A comparison between British and German achievements during the first year of war is made by the Un-der-Secretary for War (Lord Croft) in a letter to his constituents. He asked his readers to imagine a dozen ports along the Channel coast, with their warehouses smashed to the ground, and their, harbours choked with sunken or damaged Steamers and barges. This was what the Royal Air Force had accomplished. British bombers had killed moie German factory workers than all the British civilians killed in German raids. One British submarine had sunk more German troops at one blow than all the British dead

German airmen killed or captured during the last 12 weeks totalled more than all Britain’s civilian casualties. Less British blood had been spilt in the whole war than had been spilt in an hour during the last war. Britain, a land which had withstood the shocks of the Marne Gallipoli, Passchendaele, and 1918, could not be shaken by a mere war of nerves. If 5000 10,000 or 50.000 were killed in air attacks Britain would no' quail. One death in 10.000 was not enough to shake Britain, he went on The German Ah Force was now in the process of being shattered and when this was accomplished the British armies would roll back the forces of anti-Christ info 'he land from whence they had spread so much misery.