DOUBLE WEIGHT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 246, 28 July 1943, Page 3

DOUBLE WEIGHT.

AIR ASSAULT ON GERMANY. EFFECT OF ITALY’S SURRENDER. (Roc. 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. Il‘ Italy surrenders Germany will soon feel the double weight oi the Allied bombing by day and night, says the aviation correspondent of the “Daily Express.” The capture of bases in Northern Italy would provide bases for the massive British and American air forces in the Mediterranean Command to raid Germany from the south. Targets in Southern Germany could bo brought within LSO miles to 200 miles of the Allied-hold airfields. This would mean that our lightest bombers could maintain an attack in support of heavier planes, just as Belgium, Holland and Northern France are being raided now. T\ ith the opening of such a two-way onslaught on Germany not a single German town would be free from a gigantic hammering. From the airfields in Southern Italy our planes would have to fly only rm miles to reach the Rumanian oilfields. From Northern Italy the aer >- tlromes and great Skoda munition works at Pilsen wouuld be only 200 miles distant. Munich, the home of Ihe Nazi. Party, would be the nearest big target of all—only 130 miles. To protect the frontiers of v.ermany, facing Italy, the Germans would need as many interceptor planes and night fighters as they now have in the ’Ruhr and German-occupied countries in Western Europe.