STRAIN FOR WORKERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 December 1940, Page 5

STRAIN FOR WORKERS

R.A.F.’S BOMBING OF RHINE-RUHR DISTRICT GERMAN ADMISSION LONDON, 9th December. A German weekly paper prints an unusually honest admission of the damaging qualities of British raids on Western Germany. It says: “British bombers in the past month have persistently bombed the Rhine-Ruhr district, particularly Dusseldorf, Cologne, Essen and Dortmund.” The newspaper says that Western Germany is of more importance than all the other provinces of Germany. It asks whether the people of Berlin and other parts of Germany appreciate the strain of spending night after night in cellars, and yet being compelled to do a full day’s work afterward. “The attacks that have been endured are a very severe test of the nerves of the German people,” it says, “and all the harder to endure because all this bombing is hardly mentioned in the German Press.” Neutral observers confirmed the reports of heavy damage in the Ruhr done by the recent intensive British bombing. * GERMAN COMMUNIQUE (Received 11th December, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, 10th December. A German communique says: “The air force yesterday and last night, in view of bad weather, restricted its activities to armed reconnaissance. Several British w-.rplanes last night flew over occupied territories and northern Germany, and caused some damage to buildings.”