LIES REFUTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 206, 30 August 1940, Page 7

LIES REFUTED.

AMERICAN HITS BACK. _________ Actual Facts Speak For Themselves. British Official Wireless. (Reed. 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 29. The distinguished American journalist, Mr. H. K. Knickerbocker, has refuted another Nazi falsehood. A Berlin report alleged that he cabled to his American Press that he had walked for two hours in London and its suburbs amid ruins and debris. He was alleged to have said that, at Dover, the effects of panic were more terrible even than the effects of 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 dispatch 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."

German propaganda storiee relating to the damage done to industrial plant in Lancashire and thfe complete dislocation of her production as a result of German air raids cause 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 to-day eaid: "The latest figures of deliveries of raw cotton to spinners show that during the first three weeks of August, when air raids became intensified, and when, in normal years, production is, seasonally, at its lowest ebb, an average of 55,000 bales per week was delivered, compared with the average weekly 51,000 bales for the whole of 1937. "The industrial damage done by raiders over Lancashire is negligible and, so far, not one single cottonspinning or weaving mill has suffered from enemy bombs."