R.A.F. Disrupts German Communications

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 113, 14 May 1941, Page 7

R.A.F. Disrupts German Communications

(British Official Wireless.) Received Tuesday. 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, May IS. The importance of British air attack* on the great German railway yards is stresssed in the Swedish newspaper Handels Tidning which, analysing the vulnerability of German land communications, says: “So much is said about the sinkings and stoppage of England’■ imports that one forgets that in Germany’s occupied territories communications are not working smoothly either. They at least are equally considerable and vulnerable as the traffic over the oceans. “Mr. Wendell L. Willkie recently said that just those communication* were Germany’s vulnerable point and a picture in the Voelkischer Beobachter gives an astonishing revelation a< to how vulnerable they are. It shows that a 5000-ton ship’s cargo capacity equal* about 600 Tailwav wagons. The picture aims at showing the damage one torpedo can cause to England, but it also shows what a great, delicate and difficult affair German transportation over wide areas is. That transportation cannot avoid railways and the enemy ’■ fliers know it and can quite easily hit station yards. Germany can, of course, smash England’s railways and factories but cannot reach American factories and railwavs.

“The British know they are in perw sonal danger and work and suffer, but have steeled themselves against it. The Germans are commanded to suffer and work against the promise of coming wellbeing which is rather uncertain. ’ ’