BREST DOCKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1941, Page 5

BREST DOCKS

AGAIN ATTACKED BV R.A.F. NO AIRCRAFT MISSING. BOMBER COMMAND OPERATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.10 a.m.) RUGBY, September 4. No British aircraft are missing from an attack on the docks at Brest last night by the Bomber Command, states an Air Ministry communique. The enemy sent a few bombers over Britain during the night. A little damage was done in north-east England. but there were no casualties. NAZI ADMISSION BOMBING OF BRITAIN BELOW EXPECTATIONS. TALK OF MORE LARGE-SCALE ATTACKS. LONDON. September 4. The Berlin correspondent of the Swiss “Neue Zuercher Zeitung” reports that it is officially stated: “The longer nights will bring much greater bombing to Britain. Experience has proved that day attacks over well-de-fended areas are in general too costly to carry on for long periods. The German Luftwaffe will, therefore, soon start large-scale night attacks, though in spite of all the technical progress accuracy in night-bombing is not wholly possible. “This is the reason that the success we expected through our heavy bombing of British industry and ports did not come up to expectations." Whatever motives lie behind its action, the German propaganda machine is permitting a much more moderate tone in the articles generally throughout the German Press on the second anniversary of the war, and there is no doubt whatever that a superficially more chastened mood prevails. The "Neue Nachrichten,” of Munich, says: “Now we know what total war means. We must aid those numerous ones who have lost their breadwinners. At the same time, we must strengthen our morale, as the enemy is doing everything to undermine the home front. The “Schwarze KoTps,” official Nazi organ, commenting on the question of whether the High Command did not count “like everyone else" on a revolution in Russia to assist a speedy German victory, is satisfied that "The planning and execution of the campaign does not justify the conclusion that the High Command made a mistake.” Comments on the Russian war hardly accord with the noisy fanfares with which Dr Goebbels recently introduced his broadcast announcements of complete disintegration of the Russian forces.