BLOCKADE & BOMBS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1941, Page 6

BLOCKADE & BOMBS

1 PRONOUNCED EFFECT ON GERMANY EXTENSION OF CONTROL OVER SHIPPING. ' MILITARY DAMAGE AND MORAL EFFECT. ■Rriush Official Wireless. 1 i Received This Dav, 11.59 a.m.) RUGBY. January. 12. I The St'-crotary to the Ministry of ; Economic Warfare outlining measures . --a compulsory navicert and ships’ ! warrants scheme—which the Govern- ! meet has adopted to meet the situation ! arising from Germany's occupation of Western Europe, stated that already \ feur-fifths of the ships' tonnage outside j enemy countries was under British Ici ntrol or within ihe ships’ warrants i seheme. m which tiie many facilities | under British control would be availI able only to ships which could show : ships' warrants issued by Britain. Mr. ' F. i.'t added: "We have a new and forjmidable weapon--the aerial bombard-' | ment of industrial targets. In lhe las’ i war. our blockade stopped short at the ; fn.ntiors of Germany. That is why I. i'. r .me, hope that we shall never was:e time in indiscriminale bombard- ! merit. No doubt we might be justified ; in doing it by way of reprisal, but our purr, se is to hit the enemy where it I hurls him most. When bombs fall on synthetic oil plants, such as Leuna, or i on great railways centres like Hamm, we are striking directly at the enemy's ; capacity to carry on the war. It is a ; mistake to suppose that our well-aimed ! blows at industrial objectives do not I have a profoundly depressing effect i upon the morale of the enemy."