THE HOUR IS COMING”

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21210, 5 September 1940, Page 7

THE HOUR IS COMING”

RETALIATION FOR NIGHT RAIDS BRITISH CITIES WILL BE ERASED THOUSANDS OF BOMBS WILL BE DROPPED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 5, 11 a.m.) BERLIN, September 4 Hitler, making an unexpected speech at the opening of the winter relief campaign, said: “I know only one date as the date of the English collapse. If it is said in England, ‘Why doesn’t it come ? ’ then I say, ‘Be sure it will come.’ ” Hitler announced that hundreds of thousands of lbs. of bombs will drop from the sky on England every night after this, in retaliation for the British night raids. He added: “For three months I have waited for the British to cease the nuisance of nightly haphazard bombthrowing. Now we will give the answer night after night. If the British have thrown down from 2000 to 3000 kilograms we will unload 150,000 to 180,000 —yes, 200,000 kilograms. “If the British attack our cities we will simply erase theirs. We will call a halt to the night pirates. The hour is coming when one of us will break up. It won’t be Nazi Germany.”

The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press says that Hitler, who spoke at the sports palace, made fun of England when not threatening her. He described General Revolution as his chief ally, General Winter as his second, and General Hunger as his third, and added that the British should make General Bluff their Reichmarshal.

Most of Ins speech was devoted to contrasting Nazism with British plutocracy and he urged the German people to make a renewed effort for the most gigantic social work of all time.