Nov. 11.
Hitler's speech on the eve of the anniversary of the National Socialist march in Munich on Friday in the Lowenbrau Cellar was in keeping with his surroundings, for a better display of pothouse vaingloriousness it would be difficult to conceive, It contained the same ingredients of boasting, lying and abuse which has marked so many of his pub-lie utterances. Most singular of all is this re~ ference to bombing from the alr. This man, after all the world knows what has happened, had the hardihood to declare: "I never tet war be waged in this war against the civilian population. In the Polish war T had no night raids carried out on Polish towns, for one cannot hit an objective so well at night." Of course he was talking to his own people, who, possibly do not even now know the truth of the way in which slaughter of Polish civilians was carried out and which aroused the horror. of the whole civilized world. The story of what happened in the Low Countries, and in France itself, where hordes of fleeing civilians were massacred from the ait, in order to create confusion and embarrass the movements of the Allied armies, as the Germans themselves have admitted, is wholly in keep= ing with German military thought, and for Mitler to claim that he did not wat on noncombatants is the absurd lic of an absurd Jo the face of all this Hitler endeavours to lay blame for the air attacks on civilians and non-military objectives in Britain on the British themselves claiming that the raids upon the Rhine were upon civilians.
ud that after days of patience, hoping that they would desist, he was obliged to indulge in reprisals. The fact is that British aviate struck at the industrial areas along the Rhine of them proper that when Hitler's al following precisely the same tactics ax had employed in his Polish and Western European campaigns. Consequently when he ays: "'L, therefore, let attacks be made the whole only by day and always only on military objectives. T did the same in Norid the same in Holland, Belgium' and the man lies in his teeth, and the
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