Mr. Winston Churchill made it quite clear to the British public that the country may expect [shortly to feel the weight of the German air force, and he emphasized that the Nazis will by no means have things their own way. As he was speaking he must have knowledge of the [devastating series of air raids which had been Jearried cut by the RAF. over Germany the night before. Gelsenkirchen, Homburg, Wanne, Eickel, Essen, Dollbergen, Hamburg. Aachen, Duisberg, Rheydt, Cologne, and Coblenz had been visited by British bombers in the most series of raids over Germany since ning of the war. All of these cities are cither important all storage centres, railway junctions, or munitions manufactories, and the Jdamage done seems to have been enormous. [While crowds in Munich cheerd two dictators posing on the balcony of Hitler's residence, British planes were delivering their answer the Geryan hope that by giving France almost fatal blow, the war had been won. Bet-for than any "bomphlets;" the bombs announced hat the war, far from' being won, was about fo enter its' most dificult" stage and that {the Nazis have a long and arduous way to go before they can say that Hitler's dream European hegemony has been realized. Most Jencouraging is the aggressiveness of the British move. Hitherto the spectator at this distance from the Aghting has received the unfortunate impression that the Allies have, to use a boxing term, been "counter-punchiig'—on the defen the attack. In. these raids, 40 continue the metaphor,
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