The Dominion WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1941. A RECORD BLITZ FOR BERLIN

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 295, 10 September 1941, Page 6

The Dominion WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1941. A RECORD BLITZ FOR BERLIN

The report that Berlin was subjected in the small hours of Monday morning to its heaviest battering to date bears out still further Mr. Churchill’s undertaking that the British air offensive against Nazi Germany would increase steadily in intensity. The people o ie British Isles know full well the horror of mass air attack, but they and the rest of the world know also that the war-making German must be fought with his own weapons. That Berlin should suer an aerial “blitz” —that the trump-hand of Nazi frightfulness should be played at the seat of Nazi Government, each card higher than the one preceding it—-is an ironic justice. But it is much more than that. It is the way, and the only way, the German nation will be brought to realize that their remorseless leaders have condemned them, as well as innocent communities, to the ordeal of total war. In spite of the numerical weight of the attack on Berlin, which was carried out by “hundreds of aircraft,” the. British losses amounted to 20 machines. While we cannot overlook what this means in terms of sacrifice by brave men, from the broader, impersonal viewpoint i is an assurance of British superiority in aircraft and personnel. I lie flight to Berlin is long, and takes our bombers into the heart or enemy territory. Throughout the greater part of the journey the squadrons risk counter-attack from the ground and the air. And the objective is ringed and studded by the most powerful conglomeration of groun defences in Europe. Yet, in assailing this and other enemy fastnesses the Royal Air Force is preserving a continuity of operations and — on the whole —an economy, more than equal to the record of the Luftwaffe at the height of its offensive against the British Isles, ihc promise that Germany will receive two-fold that which she has meted out to others, may not yet be fulfilled. But the trend is unmistakable, and the Royal Air Force has already proved its capacity to use with maximum effect the weapons given into its hands.