TIME FOR PRESSURE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1943, Page 3

TIME FOR PRESSURE

WAR WILL END IN BERLIN ■ DECLARATION BY BRITISH 'AIR MINISTER. UNPARALLELED STRENGTH OF THE R.A.F. (British Official Wireless.! (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) I RUGBY, May 21. { That the war would end in Ber- ’ lin was a promise .made ; by .the Air Minister (Sir A. Sinclair), speak- ! ing in Edinburgh today. “jEhis is 1 not a time to relax; it is a time for i pressure,” he sqid. “We shall j pursue the enemy from North Africa into Europe and the R.A.F. I will continue to hammer him. ! This will be a main contribution . to victory—victory to be achieved ; without delay.

“Our Air Force has been built uf) into an engine of war of unparalleled strength,” Sir A. Sinclair continued. “When the time comes we shall take our enemies by the throat in their own land. The R.A.F. is now in such strength that it can cripple .German war industries and destroy everything set against us. The war will end only; in one way —that is in. Berlin.” VAGUE PROMISE ATTEMPT TO COMFORT GERMANS. WHAT ACK-ACK MEN ENDURE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 21. “We will be unable to stop enemy terror raids, but we are about to produce anti-air-craft defences which will inflict increasing losses," said a senior anti-aircraft officer, Lieutenant-General von Axtcl. broadcasting on the Berlin radio. In an attempt to counter German criticism, he said people should pay no attention to the man in the street who asks: “Where was the flak again last night when the enemy was over us?” “You are fortunate to possess such a weapon as ack-ack against the increasing enemy terrors,” said General von Axtcl. “Few of you realise what the ack-ack men experience when the enemy turns up on a large scale. They, above all, are targets for enemy bombs and machine-guns. If Germany had ho flak, there would hardly be an undamaged house in Germany and the country would be without factories.”