ENEMY RAILWAYS SYSTEM

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 211, 3 June 1944, Page 7

ENEMY RAILWAYS SYSTEM

Results Of Allied Bombing REPAIR PROBLEM (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 1. In general it can be said that the enemy’s capacity to repair railway yards appears to have been swamped both by the number of the attacks and the accuracy of the bombing. This conclusion is drawn after a review of last month’s bomber offensive against the enemy’s railways system on the Continent. At the beginning of the war it was a comparatively easy matter to repair a railway because the bombing was far less severe than ■that of today. Lines which were cut durins the German blitzes on England were in working order again in a matter of hours. The success of the latest method, involving precision attacks with a great weight of bombs within a small space, was demonstrated vividly at Juvisy. in France,, where the whole yard was devastated. In four months the Bomber Command has systematically attacked the railway nerve centres in a wide area extending roughly to a depth of 100 to 150 miles from the French coast. The devastation was so great that the enemy soon appears to have abandoned the idea of trying to get all the yards into full working order again, but”has concentrated on repairing only through lines. The result was been that though the enemy can still, bring munitions and weapons straight from Germany to France it is an increasingly difficult matter for him to switch goods from one point in France to another