R.A.F. RESUMES OFFENSIVE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23401, 7 August 1941, Page 7

R.A.F. RESUMES OFFENSIVE

RAIDS OVER SOUTHWEST GERMANY SCATTERED ATTACKS ON BRITAIN (Received August 6, 11 p.m.) (U.P.A.) LONDON, August 6. Royal Air Force bombers were over south-west Germany last night. Full details of the raids are not yet available, but it is known that Mannheim, Frankfurt-on-Main, and Karlsruhe were among the places attacked. Royal Air Force bombers carried out further attacks on enemy shipping in daylight yesterday.

An Air Ministry communique .says: Blenheims of the Bomber Command attacked an enemy convoy off the Dutch coast yesterday morning. Direct hits were seen on a ship of about 2000 tons. Other Blenheims bombed, enemy patrol ships off the German coast early in the afternoon and scored hits on three of them.

British fighters carried out offensive patrols over the Channel and Northern France during the day. During one of these patrols low-level attacks were made on an aerodrome near Cherbourg and several enemy aircraft on the ground. One of the British fighters is missing. Scattered German raiders were over the east coast of England and Scotland last night. Damage was caused at a few points, but the number of casualties was small.

A very small number of enemy aircraft made brief appearances in the coastal areas of England-during daylight, but there were no reports of bombs being dropped.

PRICE CONTROL IN U.S.

MARKED INCREASE IN LIVING COSTS

BIG PROBLEM FOR THE GOVERNMENT

(Received' August 6, 7 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, August 5. The United States Price Administrator (Mr Leon Henderson), testifying before the House of Representatives Banking Committee, said that increases in wages and employment had brought American purchasing power to a high record and the nation faced a very strong and very pro-

nounced increase in the cost of living.

Even if the Administration’s Price Control Bill became law immediately, the Government would have an enormous load in controlling prices, already spiralling, and in striving to stabilise the country’s dynamic, volatile economy. The nation’s price structure was already knocking at the door of the 1929 levels, and was heading toward the 1919 peaks. Without artificial control inflation was inevitable. Pay rolls were 152 per cent, of normal. While buying power was increasing, the production of civilian commodities was falling, and the resulting competition for goods had raised the general price level 20 per cent, since the outbreak of war. '

HIGHER WAGES IN BRITAIN

INCREASES SINCE WAR - BEGAN

LONDON, August 5,

An analysis by the “Daily Telegraph” of figures issued by the Ministry of Labour shows that full-time weekly wages for 19,995,000 workers have increased by £4,114,600 since the outbreak of war. The average increase is 4s a week. In the first six months of 1941 tjjs weekly wage of 6,850,000 persons increased on an average by 45d, representing a drop of about 6d in the average rate of the increase in weekly wages in the corresponding six months last year, when 6,600,000 workers received an estimated total rise of £1,400,000 over pre-war figures. Last June the aggregate weekly wage increase was £300,000, divided among 1,925,000 workers, mostly in the coalmining, iron and steel manufacturing, and building industries and public works.

SUGGESTED VIS.IT TO AMERICA MR CHURCHILL OR LORD BEAVERBROOK LONDON, August 5. The “New York Sun” says reports are circulating in Washington that a high British personage, possibly Mr Churchill or Lord Beaverbrook, might fly to America to confer with Mr Roosevelt in the near future. It points out that a visit by Mr Churchill, who is exceedingly popular in the United States, would have farreaching effects, dramatising the world situation in the minds of the American public but it suggests that Britain might feel that Mr Churchill is too valuable to risk an Atlantic flight. An Ottawa message says that the Canadian Prime Minister (Mr W. L. Mackenzie King) and the British High Commissioner in Canada (Mr Malcolm Mac Donald) denied knowledge of any projected visit by Mr Churchill to America. On the contrary, it was thought extremely unlikely that Mr Churchill would visit America.

Casualties at Sea.—A casualty list issued by the Ministry of War Transport contains the names of 114 members of the merchant navy and fishing fleets, who met their deaths by enemy action on various dates.—Rugby, August 5.

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