GATHERING STORM

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1942, Page 5

GATHERING STORM

BOMBING OF GERMANY

WRITING ON THE WALL

(Rec. 12.45 pan.) RUGBY, June 10. The British bombing policy has been further explained by the chief of the Bomber Command, Air Marshal Harris, in a broadcast. Air Marshal Harris said that the Germans had entered the war under the quaint illusion that they could bomb everybody in the way and; that nobody could bomb them.. They had sown the wind, and now they'were beginning to reap the whirlwind.

Lubeck, Rostock, and Cologne were just a beginning.

Although Britain could not yet put 1000 bombers over , Germany every night, she had proved that it could be done, and, if necessary, far surpassed The force needed for that effort was not yet available, .but Britain would obtain it and could do so from her own resources.

The Air Marshal said that the Nazis should take good note of the western horizon, where a cloud which was now the size of a man's hand would grow to a storm that would sweep Germany when the whole massive power of the United States was In action. That storm would make the Germans look back to the days of Lubeck, Rostock, and Cologne as men in a raging typhoon thought back to a gentle zephyr. It might take a year, even two years, but the writing was on the wall

To the claim that bombing would nowin the war, he said he would say ii had not been tried yet.— B.O.W.