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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1943, Page 4

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OF SHATTERING EFFECTS OF BOMBING

MADE BY NAZI PRESS & RADIO ■NITiATiVE NOW WITH ALLIES. RUHR WORKERS SPENDING NIGHTS IN CELLARS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, June 22. “It is impossible to say that German attacks on English towns are in any way comparable with the enemy's bombing of us,” declared the Germanlanguage Belgium newspaper “Brussels!’ Zeitung,” quoted by the Stockholm

“Social Demokraten.” “The enemy has never so far threatened us so much with his different weapons and he has a clear advantage in materialising his threats.

“The German people, for the first, time since the outbreak of war, find that the initiative, hitherto on the German side, has taken leave of absence and that the enemy is now trying cut the seven-league boots which belonged to Germany,” the paper adds. “It is possible we Germans have not got the thick skin necessary to bear catastrophies like Dunkirk, or to use them as a drastic cure. Within the last few months all those circumstances which made the war develop favourably have evaporated. Even the bleeding inflicted on the enemy by the U-boats has become slower.

“It is not often we agree with a British-American idea, but they are not far wrong when they call the present attacks against the Ruhr the Battle of the Ruhr,” said a commentator on the Berlin radio, in the latest of a series of frank statements giving the German people an inkling of the power of the Allied blows. “It is true that many German men and women have lost their lives and that many more will lose their lives in the immediate future. Workers in the German industrial areas no longer sleep in their beds, but work goes on, although most people in the Ruhr spend their nights in cellars.” The speaker described Oberhausen as a city of gaping holes and shattered factories, with half the population living in barracks outside the city.