DEMAND AT HOME

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 51, 28 August 1940, Page 9

DEMAND AT HOME

REPRISALS IN KIND

UNSOUND STRATEGY

THE MAIN OBJECTIVE

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received August 28, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, August 27.

The "Daily Telegraph" says that, not unnaturally, the German bombing of non-military objectives has raised the demand for reprisals in kind, but that it would be contrary to sound strategy to adopt such a course at the expense of the main objective of weakening the enemy's power of mischief by attacking his bases and factories.

! "In fulfilment of that aim," it says, "we inflicted far more damage on the enemy than he has been able to inflict on us. Last Sunday's attack on Berilin was a blow at important producing plants. If and when it becomes ' expedient, our airmen can always get to Berlin again, but it will be at their | own chosen time and not as an im- | mediate counter to provocation re- | ceived." 1 The "Manchester Guardian" says: "It is not wholly a" popular myth that the German airmen are not good at night flying. What is important is whether with practice they might turn out to be as good as wt are, and that is unlikely. Our pilots have studied Germany by night for many months, but the Germans have only just begun to find their way about Britain: If the German pilot's training is less rigorous than ours, he can never hope to be as good. While it is always possible to damage a town severely at night, it is the kind of damage done that matters."

The "Daily Express" says that the fact that aircraft workers last week turned out more bombers and fighters than ever before provides an answer to Germany's mass raids, tip and run expeditions, reconnaissance flights, and solitary night bombings. Resort to screaming bombs, parachutes without Nazis, and delayed action bombs, have all been tried without disturbing the good temper, common sense, and calm of the British people.

The relatively unimportant military results of the enemy air attacks is being increasingly * emphasised in the neutral Press by correspondents here, who have had ample opportunities of assessing them, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the prominence given abroad to these dispatches -is causing growing irritation in Germany. The "Voelkischer Beobachter" is indignant that "the disastrous effect of German air raids on England" is not admitted in neutral countries and even adopts a threatening attitude. Meanwhile, radio broadcasts from Germany and German-occupied territory reiterate most extravagant claims as to the damage caused in Britain.