NAZI EXCUSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 229, 26 August 1940, Page 8

NAZI EXCUSES.

WEATHER RELAYS BLITZKRIEG. - LONDON, Auk. 84. . The Berlin correspondent of the Official Spanisli News Agency says that 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 elements which prevented England being invaded by the Spanish Aimada, 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 - the conr trary, says the message, they have been of immeasurable value to the German High Command, enabling modification of tbo plans of attack based on real knowledge of the strength of the enemy. German air activity in the past fortnight had proved that it is simple to bombard Portsmouth and Croydon, and also to penetrate the strong formations protecting London. The Leipzig radio states that Marshal Goering’s planes are producing such panic in Britain that mental h os* nitals are filled with new patients. HIGH COMMAND REPORT. The German High Command announces: “Our aeroplanes yesterday and last night attacked harbour works, dockyards,, aerodromes, armament works and troop camps in the Midlands

and North England and bombed ammunition works at Banbury causing violent explosions. The night attacks caused fires which were visible fora great distance at Bristol, Aionmouth, Devonport, Great' Yarmouth and tho Cambridge aerodrome. “A few enemy planes ineffectively bombed Western Germany last night. Three or four were shot down by antiaircraft guns and chasers. Two of our ’planes are missing. U-boat's 1 sank over 100,000 tons of enemy shipping in eight days. One U-boat sank 15,000 tons of shipping, another sank the armed British merchantman Severn Leigh Brookwood in addition to art unnamed ship of. 4000 tons. A third U-boat torpedoed an 11,000-ton ship.