MORE NAZI LIES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21205, 30 August 1940, Page 7

MORE NAZI LIES

DENIAL BY AMERICAN DAMAGE IN BRITAIN EXAGGERATED CLAIMS (Official Wireless) (Received Aug. 30, 11 a m.) RUGBY, Aug. 29 The distinguished American journalist, Mr Knickerbocker, has refuted another Nazi falsehood. A Berlin report alleged that he cabled to the American Press that he walked for two hours in London and suburbs amid ruins and debris. He is alleged to have said that at Dover the effects of the panic were more terrible even than the effects of the shells and bombs. This was repeated by the Rome radio last night. Mr Knickerbocker says: “I was in Dover three weeks ago. Nothing happened then and I have never mentioned Dover in any despatch of mine since that time. “All references to damaged areas in London were made to point out the difference between the exaggerated German claims and the actual facts.” No Damage in Lancashire The German propaganda stories relating to damage done to an industrial plant in Lancashire and the complete dislocation of her production as a result of German air raids caused surprise to Lancashire manufacturers, who, apart from what they are able to see for themselves, can produce indisputable evidence to the world at large of the inaccuracy of the German claims. The chairman of the Lancashire Cotton Board today said: “The latest figures of deliveries of raw cotton to the spinners show that during the first three weeks of August, when the air raids became intensified and when in normal years the production was seasonally at its lowest ebb, an average of 55,000 bales weekly was delivered, compared with an average weekly of 51,000 bales for the whole of 1937. “The industrial damage done by raiders over Lancashire has been negligible and so far not one single cotton spinning or weaving mill has suffered from enemy bombs.”