NAZI REASON
Air Attacks Relaxed Because Of Weather
LON DON, August 2-1.
The Berlin correspondent of the official Spanish news agency says: "The principal cause of the relaxation of the German air offensive against England is the difficult atmospheric conditions which are prevalent over the whole of north Europe. It was the same element which prevented England being invaded by the Spanish Armada, and it is again England’s salvation. “The weather prevents Hitler’s invincible forces carrying on the fight on English soil, but the German air raids have not been in vain. “On tiie contrary,” says the message, “they have been of immeasurable value to the German High Command, enabling modification of the plans of attack based on real knowledge of the sirengib of the enemy." German air m-livily in the past forlniglil. il is said, hail proved Ihtil; il is simple to bombard Portsmouth and Croydon, and also Io penetrate the strong formations protecting London.
'The Leipzig radio stated that Marshal Goering’s planes are producing such panic in Britain that menial hospitals are filled with new patients.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 284, 26 August 1940, Page 7
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178NAZI REASON Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 284, 26 August 1940, Page 7
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