RECKLESS LIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 4

RECKLESS LIES

TOLD BY THE NAZIS IN EXAGGERATING EFFECT OF,REVENGE RAIDS. MR MORRISON ON POSSIBILITIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 6. Discussing the recent revenge raids by the Luftwaffe, the Minister of Home Security, Mr Morrison, said the raids had certain interesting features. One was the increasingly shameless naked exaggeration of the significance of these raids in the Nazi reports to their own country. Exeter had become an important port, Canterbury a great centre of transport and Ipswich was described as an alternative port of supply for London. The whole scale and significance of the raids was magnified 50 times over. Never had Goebbels’ propagandists lifed more recklessly than in the past few weeks. The time must come, however, when they would,fry to give a more solid basis to their assertions. If that did happen, it would mean Hitler would be forced to move bombers which he sorely needed elsewhere and to hazard them against the greatly increased power of Britain’s night defences. It vzould mean that Britain’s civil defences must be ready to give all they had of skill and devotion and the civil population he knew would play their part. _____