NAZI EXCUSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1940, Page 5

NAZI EXCUSES

ATTEMPTED EXPLANATIONS

REASONS FOR RELAXATION OF ATTACKS. FANCIFUL ALLEGATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! LONDON, August 24. The Berlin correspondent of the official Spanish news agency says: ‘‘The principal cause of the relaxation of the German air offensive against England is the difficult atmospheric conditions which are prevalent over the whole of north Europe. It was the same element which prevented England being invaded by the Spanish Armada, and it is again England's salvation. ‘■The weather prevents Hitler’s invincible forces carrying on the fight on English soil, but the German air raids have not been in vain.

“On the contrary,” says the message, “they have been of immeasurable value to the German High Command, enabling modification of the plans of atattack based on real knowledge of the strength of the enemy. German air activity in the past fortnight, it is said, had proved that it is simple to bombard Portsmouth and Croydon, and also to penetrate the strong formations protecting London. The Leipzig radio stated that Marshal Goering’s planes are producing such panic in Britain that mental hospitals are filled with new patients.