FRENCH WARNED BY AMERICANS

Southland Times, Issue 24870, 9 October 1942, Page 5

FRENCH WARNED BY AMERICANS

BOMBING OF MUNITION FACTORIES (Rec. 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 7. The British Broadcasting Corporation today relayed a warning from the United States to the French people to evacuate places where w’ork is' being done for the Germans. The warning referred to the increasing American raids against France and said: “The bombs which fall on France are not aimed at the French, but exclusively against the Nazis and against all that is done in the occupied zone of France for the sake of Germany. Plants working for Germany, railway establishments, shipyards, U-boat bases, anti-aircraft nests and artillery emplacements are the targets for the bombs from American planes.” The Under-Secretary of State, Mr Sumner Welles, said that the warnings to French civilians to keep away from munitions factories were consistent with the desire to spare civilians the horrors of bombardment. The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter states that 1,200,000 German children have been evacuated in 17,000 special trains in the last two years from districts dangerously exposed to British bombing. Seven thousand Hitler Youth Movement leaders and 3500 school teachers are caring for the evacuees. KRUPPS. BRANCH AT ZAGREB The Budapest newspaper Pester Lloyd reports that a branch of the Krupps armament works has been registered at Zagreb, in Yugoslavia. This, it says, is symptomatic of the German policy of transferring industry to areas further out of reach of the Royal Air Force. Britain’s Secretary for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, has disclosed in the House of Commons that 1082 bombers have been reported lost over Germany in the last nine months. The bombing of Germany is regarded as a softening process designed to break down the brunt of enemy resistance until other forces come into play, it is stated on good authority in London. Twelve raids were made on Germany in the first 20 nights of Septem-

t ber. These were formidable and gave ' considerable support to Rusisa by daml age to German industry and by forcing Germany to retain a large air force in : Germany. I Four impressive raids have already been made in the first six nights of • October after a hold-up because of ’ adverse weather. While it will not be possible to go out every night during i the winter a steady improvement is be- ’ ing made and there is a determination to continue building up Allied air ’ strength until the raids approach a 1 weight two or three times that of to- ; day. The achievement of this aim de- ■ pends largely on American production ■ and transportation. . The recent raids are known to have E done enormous damage and it is exL pected that this will have a serious effect on production in Germany during the winter. Daylight raiding is also having a valuable damaging effect. Thirty towns have been raided in daylight in the last three months, some several times.