BRITISH COLLAPSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1940, Page 5

BRITISH COLLAPSE

HOPED FOR BY HITLER AN UNEXPECTED SPEECH IN BERLIN. SOME ASTONISHING CLAIMS. Hitler made an unexpected speech in Berlin, Daventry reports, in which he said that Germany had achieved only partial results in the first year of the last war, whereas on this occasion she had found a final and complete solution. Only the speedy withdrawal of British forces from Flanders and Britain’s fortunate geographical position had saved her from sharing the fate of others. An English collapse, he said, would surely come. His foreign policy had always been directed towards understanding. but now he was prepared to fight until a clear position had been reached. He had waited for three months for the British to stop night bombing, which, he said, was indiscriminate. Now Britain was getting, an answer which would stop her bombing of Germany. FURIOUS THREAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BOMBS. • “EVERY NIGHT AFTER THIS.” (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) BERLIN, September 4.

In his speech, made unexpectedly at the opening of the winter relief campaign, Hitler said: “I know only one date as the date of the English collapse. If it is said in England: Why doesn’t it come? Then I say be sure, it will come.” Hitler announced: “Hundreds of thousands of pounds of bombs will drop from the sky over England, every night after this, in retaliation for the British night raids.” He added: “For three months I’ve waited for the British to cease the nuisance of nightly, haphazard bomb throwing. Now we will give the answer,' night after night. If the British have thrown down 200 to 300 kilograms, we will unload 150,000 to 180,000—yes, 200,000. If the British attack our cities we will simply erase theirs. We will call a halt to the night pirates. The hour is coming when one of us will break up. It won’t be Nazi Germany.”