DELUDED NAZIS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21243, 14 October 1940, Page 7

DELUDED NAZIS

CONFIDENCE IN HITLER GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT AHEAD EFFECT ON GERMAN MORALE limited press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Oct. 14, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 13 Travellers arriving at Istanbul ' from the Balkans say five large merchantmen sank in Hamburg harbour following an attack by British bombers. The damage to the harbour is I enormous. It is now hardly useable. The oil tanks burn continuously. Yugoslav workers at Hanover have i asked their government to repatriate ! them, as they cannot stand the inferno of the nightly Royal Air Force bombings. These and other witnesses comment on the uncanny precision of the British bombers, but generally information concerning the effects of the bombing is difficult to obtain, the ■ districts affected being sealed from i each other to prevent the leakage of j information. The effect of the Royal Air Force’s j work on the German morale, there- | fore, has been until now local, not ] general. A visitor from Berlin states that the people’s confidence in | the Fuehrer is still high. They \ believe that the war will end before the winter. The Propaganda Minister has given 1 the impression that London already ; is a mass of ruins. It is thought the disappointment ahead for the people may seriously affect their morale, for a second winter of war is apparently the most dismal prospect the population can imagine.