No Wall Round Europe Can Keep The Allies Out

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1942, Page 3

No Wall Round Europe Can Keep The Allies Out

Waning of Luftwaffe's strength. Rec. 8.15 p.m. London, Aug. 23. "The Dieppe raid proved that no wall Hitler has built round Europe would keep the Allies out when they decided to go in," says John Gordon, writing in the Sunday Express. "Dieppe," he says, "was probably the strongest point of all the coastal defences. The raid brought Hitler's fighters up in clouds with the result that we destroyed about one-third of the German air strength in the west. If we could force a week or a fortnight of air fighting on such a scale as Dieppe we might deal the Luftwaffe its death blow, and the moment Germany loses her air strength she is done, wherever her land forces are. "Slowly but with inevitable certainty those who have been forecasting supreme domination of the air are seeing the vision become a fact. Hitler can never again eee equality with the Royal Air Force, far less hold an overwhelming superior-

ity. The Luftwaffe can no longer face two campaigns at once. It cannot bomb Britain and support the army in Russia at the same time."

German says tanks were useless. Rec. 8.15 p.m. London, Aug. 23. A German eyewitness of the Dieppe raid, speaking over Paris radio, expressed surprise that the Allied forces used tanks. "The beach fortifications were powerful and there was not a single road from the beach to the town accessible to Uinks, but some British tanks attempted the Beemingly impossible. These tanks advanced little but, finding the position hopeless, turned back and ran into the full blast of the German anti-tank guns." he said. He added that the raiders fought with amazing stubbornness and stuck to their posts until their last cartridge was epent or until they drew their last breath. i ■