WELL WORTH WHILE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1942, Page 3

WELL WORTH WHILE

RESULTS OF DIEPPE RAID MESSAGE FROM GENERAL MCNAUGHTON. TO CANADIAN PREMIER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.7 a.m.) RUGBY, August 21. “Canada can well be proud of the courage and skill shown by her men who took part in the Dieppe raid,” General McNaughton (Commander of the Canadian forces in Britain) states in a message to the Canadian Prime Minister (Mr Mackenzie King) expressing the appreciation with which the troops have received a message of confidence from the Government and people of Canada. “The raid marks, we hope, the opening of a new phase in the struggle against Nazi tyranny in Europe. We have had to pay a heavy price in casualties, but a powerful and resounding blow has been struck and the results are clearly well worth while.” LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES 1 NEARLY 4,000 GERMANS WOUNDED ENEMY CLAIMS OVER 2,000 PRISONERS. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 21. The Moscow radio, quoting a Geneva report said that on Wednesday night ambulance trains, with 700 German wounded, passed through Paris from Dieppe. More than 3,000 more German wounded are at Rouen, awaiting transfer to other towns. The Germans arrested 200 French people in the Dieppe area after the raid, “due to the hostile attitude of certain French people towards the German troops.” De Brinon (Vichy representative in Paris) stated that the French civilian death roll at Dieppe is now 36. The raid caused extensive material damage. Delayed action bombs started fires in the evening. De Brinon said that the Germans estimate that 3,500 British were killed at Dieppe. A German communique claims that 2,095 of the enemy were taken prisoner during the raid, 617 of them wounded. The “Evening News” says: “Because some of the tanks which set out for Dieppe were relanded in England, some people believed we were able to reembark some of the tanks which landed in France. This is not true. If we had not lost a fairly large number of the landing craft it might have been possible to get off the tanks, but it was a case of men before tanks. There was no room for both.” One of two correspondents wounded at Dieppe was Mr Wallace (Mac) Reyburn, of Auckland, representing the “Montreal Standard.” He was slightly wounded in the thigh and shoulder.