STRICT MILITARY TARGETS
OPERATIONS OVER GERMANY UNCHANGED POLICY OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) Rugby, April 29. Asked whether the intensified bombing operations over Germany, including the attack on Lubeck, involved a departure from the previously declar- ■ ed policy of the Government that they ; would be confined to military objec- ! tives, Sir Archibald Sinclair told the House of Commons that the Government’s policy was unchanged. “It is s to destroy the enemy capacity to make 1 war by bombing his war factories, means of transport and military stores wherever they may be found Lubeck ■ ana Rostock, which were recently at- ; tacked are ports vital to the enemy : now that the Baltic ice is breaking, for ; supplies to his armies in north Russia, ] Finland, Norway and the Swedish iron ore traffic. Lubeck is also a training i centre for submarine crews, an in- ; dustrial city and a warehousing cen- < tre for military stores. Rostock is the seat of the great Heinkel aircraft works. The effect of our attacks on these targets should prove of particular assistance to our Russian Allies’’— 8.0. W
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 30 April 1942, Page 5
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181STRICT MILITARY TARGETS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 30 April 1942, Page 5
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