CRIPPLING GERMANY’S RAILWAYS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 111, 14 May 1941, Page 5

CRIPPLING GERMANY’S RAILWAYS

THEY ARE VULNERABLE TRANSPORTATION IS DISLOCATED (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, May 12 The importance of British air attacks on the great German railway yards is stressed in the Swedish newspaper Handels Tidning, which, analysing the vulnerability of the German land communications, says: “So much is said about sinkings and stoppage of England's 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 traffic over the oceans."

Mr. Wendell Willkie recently said that just those communications were Germany's vulnerable point, and in a picture in the Voelkischer Beobachter it. gives an astonishing revelation as to how vulnerable they are. It shows that 5000 tons of ships' cargo capacity equals about 600 railway 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’s fliers know it and can quite easily hit the station yards. Germany can, of course, smash England's railways and factories, but cannot, reach American factories and railways. The British know they are in personal danger as they work and suffer, but they shield themselves against it. The Germans are commanded to suffer and work against the promise of coming wellbeing. which is rather uncertain.— 8.0.W.