ALLIED BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1942, Page 3

ALLIED BOMBING

WILL FORCE GERMANS TO THEIR KNEES ACCORDING TO FOREIGN OBSERVERS. INCREASING UNEASINESS IN REICH. 'By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 24. “Foreign observers have become increasingly convinced that, continual pounding from the air of the Germans’ industrial centres during the winter will force the Germans to their knees in a much shorter time than is usually believed in Allied circles,’’ says a correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” “somewhere in Europe.”

“The observers declare that the raids have directly affected at' least 10,000,000 of the Germans. The evacuation of refugees is becoming a problem and is threatening to defeat even the thorough German administration. Two thousand women and children were forced to spend two days in a train in which they had travelled to a refugee town before lodgings could be found for them. “One of the authorities’ greatest difficulties is where to send the evacuees now that the Russians are attacking eastern Germany, which was formerly considered safe. Thousands of Alsatians with ‘doubtful’ views are being deported to Germany in order to make room for refugees. “The uneasiness has so increased after the raids against Frankfurt and Munich that several divisions of picked guards were recalled from the Eastern Front to reinforce the police in the bombed areas.” The Berlin radio stated that Dr Ley. as Vice-Commissioner of Private Dwellings, has visited many parts of Germany, including Hamburg and Bremen, where “the housing problem is specially distressing because of war conditions.” TERRIFIC DAMAGE DONE IN KARLSRUHE. TWO-THIRDS OF CITY GUTTED. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) ZURICH, September 25. Eyewitnesses declare that in the recent R.A.F. raid on Karlsruhe two-thirds of the city was either destroyed or so badly damaged that only the outlines of ruined buildings remain. The damage is among the heaviest ever inflicted on a German city and the numbers of dead are estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000. Hundreds of people were drowned in shelters, through the bursting of water mains and drainage pipes. Fires were so extensive that brigades were summoned from Heidelberg and Stuttgart. Bombs battered the industrial quarter, the port and the heart of the city. Many workers have now been transferred from Karlsruhe to factories in Venice and Milan.