Information reaching official sources London states that Hitler and his myrmidons are becoming embarrassed by the sticcess of British raids over Germany, Naturally this should be so, for did not Goering promiec that British machines should never penetrate German skies, and that Berlin should remain, inviolate? When Britain commenced to exact ale women and children from London at the beginning of the ter which many of them drifted back to their old homes—the Na ered. Now there isa wholesale evacuation from Berlin, Hamburg. and the Ruhr to south-eastern Germany and even to Vienna. Germany failed to realize completely as did Great Britain what ait= raids were going to be like. That anticipatory: Knowtedge and "the Anderson shelters, which also aroused German scorn, have been respon sible for keeping British casualties within bounds. grievous though the losses undoubtedly are. German oficiaidom. ty stil erleavouring, to keep from the people knowledge of the damage which the British airmen are doing in their repeated bombings of military objectives, but clearing away the debris, or hiding it behind hoardings is mot the best means of convincing the Germans of the alleged ineffectiveness of the British raids. It would serve to arouse the suspicions of most persons, even the sheepheaded Germans as Hitler so scornfully calls them. and it ig probable that German official les of little damage done are received with Very considerable scepticism in those districts which bitter experience has (aught a different lesson. "Av'things are it is of course dificult for the British authorities to obtain a clear version of the damage which has been wreaked Germany, in exactly the same way as the Germans are unable to present a. truthful picture of the harm done in Britain. "But when It comes to dealing with the destruction wrought in Britain the Government has shown every Feadiness to take the people into its confidence. There is sometimes a delay in the publication of news concerning air-raids for purely military reasons, but within a comparatively short while details are announced, und the Press is allowed to reproduce pictures of the damage done. Some of the newspapers recently arriving from home have ad their front pages completely. occupied by information and pictures concerning ireraids. The Nazis seek to fob the Germans off with the customary tale that no. or, at the very most, little damage has. resulted from British raids. There is only one conclusion to be drawn from the different policies of the two Governments in thig matter: the British know their people can take it, the Nazis fear theirs cannot, and in any event are taking no chanees,
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