BY END OF YEAR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 271, 26 August 1943, Page 4

BY END OF YEAR.

FALL OF GERMANY PREDICTED. AMERICAN VIEWS POSSIBILITY. (Rec. .11.20 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 25. “I believe that if the present type of British and American round-the-clock bombing operations can be continued with a reasonable rise in tempo the economic structure of Nazi Germany is going to fail by the end of the .year,” declared Major-General Harold George, commanding general of the United States Army Air Transport Command, wlio is visiting Brit s ain.

The general added: “I mean by failure that it’would be unable to continue to function at the degree that is essential to support a major war. I am making this statement with a reasonable appreciation of the wea-

they and a reasonable knowledge of our aircraft building. It is obvious that the Nazis realise the terrific implications of bombing operations now being conducted from England against them. They have concentrated over 60 per cent, of their entire fighter force in the area facing England. “A nation to wage war, must possess two vital factors —the will lo fight and the means with which to fight. The first of these factors is being disintegrated by the magnificently executed operations of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command. The second is the objective of the Eighth Air Force Bomber Command. It is obvious that each force definitely complements the other.”