NAZI LEADERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 5

NAZI LEADERS

FLIGHT FROM BERLIN ON ACCOUNT OF ALLIED BOMBING. BITTER COMMENT IN GERMAN CAPITAL. (Bv Telegraph—-Press Association —Copyright) LONDON. September 10. The British and Russian bombing lias made Berlin too hot for the Xazi leaders and most of the foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, who are now living at least 20 or 30 miles outside 1 lie capital. This lias been reported by a neutral diplomat on bis arrival in London 10 days after leaving Germany.

The absence of the Nazi chiefs, he said, aroused bitter comment in Berlin, where the popularity of Marshal Goering. who promised that the capital would not be raided, diminishes with every attack. Berlin’s A.R.P. chief is reported to have been sacked because of the rising public feeling, and his successor has been forced to appeal to those Berliners who do not have adequate shelters to build their own at the Government’s' expense. PROPAGANDA CONTRAST. The reports of the Nazi raids on London which were given by the German news agency last year bear strong contrast to a statement emanating from the s a rife source following the heavy raid on Berlin by the R.A.F. on the night of September 7-8. Describing one of last year's raids, the German agency spoke of the faces of the returning crews being “radiant, as every one of them had a great experience,” and it added, “House walls were torn up and crumbled down. The city was alight with fires, enabling the planes to fly directly to the targets and drop further messengers of death. The area on both sides of the Thames stretching toward west London was one fiery hell, with flames, explosions and utter devastation.” Now the epithets “detestable, rotten disgusting” are applied to the R.A.F. when a strong taste of their own medicine is meted out to the Berliners.