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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24606, 14 May 1941, Page 8

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"HITLER A MANIAC" COLONEL KNOX'S DECLARATION WASHINGTON, (Rec. 2 a.m.) May 13. The Secretary of the Navy (Colonel Knox), said: "The convoy controversy is futile, because it is possible that convoys won't be sufficient, and we might be obliged to develop new defences to ensure the arrival of materials in Britain. Hitler is a maniac whom we must oppose. I reject isolation or surrender. We cannot build a Chinese wall around ourselves. I have just visited the isolationist Midwest and found the sentiment sharply swinging to aid for Britain." MANNHEIM AGAIN BOMBED R.A.F. RAIDS ON GERMANY (Rec. 2 a.m.) LONDON, May 13. Mannheim bore the brunt pf the R.A.F. offensive on enemy targets last night, and Coblenz, Cologne, Ostend, and Dunkirk were also attacked. Not a plane was lost in these operations. The great industrial centre of Mannheim, which has been raided on numerous occasions in recent months, again suffered a heayy battering. German activity over Britain last night was light and scattered, and casualties were few. Not a bomb was dropped on London. One enemy raider was shot down last night, making a total of 134 for the first 12 nights of this month. NAZI RUTHLESSNESS DESTRUCTION OF CHURCHES (Rec. 2 a.m.) LONDON, May 13. Mr Sidney Berry, secretary of the Congregational Union, revealed that 63 London churches have been slightly damaged by bombing, 50 badly damaged, and 28 completely destroyed. Seventy-seven churches elsewhere in Britain have been slightly damaged, 50 badly damaged and 33 completely destroyed.