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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21200, 24 August 1940, Page 14 (Supplement)

BRITISH WORKERS NAZI PROPAGANDA FAILS LONDON, August 23 It is expected that Sir John Anderson will make a further statement shortly dealing with the special arrangements for air raid warnings in industrial areas. In this connection interest attaches to the considerable prominence which the German "workers' challenge" station has given recently to propaganda talks, the purpose of which is to incite British workers whom they hope are listening to their transmission against being compelled to con’inue work on vital war production during air raids. The constant repetition of thi3 theme in the broadcasts from the German station is considered in London a sure sign of serious disappointment at the failure to dislocate Britain’s industrial life, which Germany hoped would result from her recent large-scale air attacks. In point of fact, the view of the British worker, which is frequently expressed in the press, is that providing air ra ! d warnings are sounded to enable his dependents to take shelter he himself is prepared to ignore them and continue work. Discussions along these lines aro reported to have been proceeding among the Home Secretary, the Minister of Labour, employers and trades union olficials, but the Gorman raids have not only failed to dislocate Erit'sh industry, but also have failed to have anything but a strengthening effect on the morale of the British people. Testimony to this fact was given by Viscount Nuffield this evening. He said said l;o was profoundly inspired by the "teadincss and cheerful courage of the British workers in the face of the air attacks. "If the enemy could see certain residential districts in the industrial centres which I recently visited and noted the cheerful contompt with which his airmen’s efforts are treated by the workers whose homes have suff .red he would despair of ever breaking the morale of the British people," said Lord Nuffield. One of the examples which Lord Nuffield instanced was a worker whoso cottage was damaged in a night raid, who carefully rummagtu among the rubble for a Union Jack which he had kept since the Coronation. When dawn came it was fluttering gaily from a battered chimney stack. MORE AIR RAIDS DAMAGE ON CONTINENT LONDON, August 23 The Grisheim chemical works, where explosives are manufactured on a large scale, were attacked by the Royal Air Force. Oil refineries at Bottrop were bombed. Railway junctions at Hamm, Soest, Coblenz, Mannoheim and Duiseberg were all attacked again. A series of heavy explosions resulted from another attack made by a single raidor on tho De Mo3k seaplane bases in Holland. A Ministry of Home Security communique 6tates: Bombs were dropped on a small town near the coast in Hampshire and at a few places in the Isle of Wight on Friday evening. Some damage was done to houses and shops, and there were a number of casualties, including some persons killed. Among the interesting targets selected for attack by individual lowflying German raiders during Friday were the streets of a spa, grass of racecourses, cottages of a small village, and a police station in the Midlands. The spa street police station was machine-gunned and the racecourse and village were bombed. There was one casualty in the village. German bombers also tried to machinegun anti-aircraft sites, but that was more dangerous. Between 7 o’clock on Thursday evening and mid-day on Friday four enemy aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft fire. It is now revealed that one of the German bombers destroyed on Thursday evening was shot down by a Belgian flohter pilot. It was the fifth ciemy aircraft he had destroyed since he Joined the Fighter Command squadron a month ago, after escaping with his wife and baby from Belgium. PAKURANRA RACES Pakuranga Hunt Cup.—6—6 Biform 10.4 (D.J. Burgess) 1; I—l Love Lilt 10.9 (M. Ritchie) 2; 7—B Dark Rose, 9.0 (C. L. Goulsbrj) 3. Scr.: Tutor, Silver Wattle. Auckland Handicap: A —E> Milanion, 8.1 (A. Markwick), 1; I—l Venture, 8.5 (T. Groen>, 2; 3—3 Joan Peel, 8.13 (A. G. Cameron), 3. Milanion was coupled with Hackenschmidt. Scr.: Little Ruse, Lord Waitangi, Acre’s Beauty, Hinehou, RUGBY FOOTBALL Hamilton: Half-time, Hamilton representatives 10, Morrinsville representatives 3.