Asked to Commit "Hara Kiri" After Failure Tokyo, Sept. 12.
Group Captain W. E. Bryant, Air Attache to the British Embassy here, today invited Grand Marshal Hermann W. Goering, of Germany, to commit for the failure of the Reich's aerial blitzkrieg against England.
"It I were the commander-in-chief of the German air force, I would give up as having failed and commit "hara-kiri," Captain Bryant told a reporter of the "Chugai Shogyo Shimbun" today.
Pointing out that the foggy season soon would engulf England, Captain Bryant declared that only the Royal Air Force would be able to overcome the familiar "pea-soup fog."
He added that the German air force "Can't do it" The Air Attache added that he was basing his statements on actual experience as he had been Commandant of a London aerodrome.
Captain Bryant further dismissed as "unbelievable" the New York report stating that the International News Service report from Budapest, quoting the Moscow Radio, had disclosed that Nazi troops had landed in northern Ireland.—Domei. ivory Coast Loyal
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