Proof that the Royal Air Force is fulfilling the Prime Minister's promise to make the German people gulp sharper doses of the miseries they have showered on mankind, is given in the latest despatches from London, relating. details of the raids being daily carried out over Germany and German-occupied territory. It has been revealed that the R.A.F. sent in a single night as many bombers as (he Nazis used in some of the heaviest raids they made upon Britain last winter. British planes have also dropped a greater tonnage of bombs on Germany in the last fortnight than they did-during the whole month of April, The toll taken of German aircraft in the daylight sweeps over the occupied Continent has also been remarkable. with comparatively little loss to the British. In short, the Ger-mang are now being given something far more aion to, think about than they ever had before.
The effectiveness of the intensified British bombing disproves the Nazi theory that their attack upon Russia does not bring them into a war on two fronts. It is true that on the western front they have not to face the masses of Allied infantry that they had to face during the last war. But it -appear that the! R.A.F. is quite as great a ce. To put a stop to the terrific "done to the Nazi communications and factories in western Germany. it will be necessary for the Luftwaffe to divert a number of machines from the Russian battle zone, and the RAF. may thus relieve the strain under which the Soviet armies are suffering at the moment. To achieve this will be worth the loss of far more British planes than have already been shot down. In the Blitzkrieg against the Low Countries and France. the Germans were not distracted by attacks upon their rear. In the present battle, however. they are being severely attacked while their defensive forces are busily engaged elsewhere. The magnificent resistance being put up by the Soviets is probably taxing the resources of the German High Command to the utmost. and they can ill afford to have their attention divided by raids upon their lines of communication, their supply factories. and their industrial centres by an enemy against whom they have been unable for the last six weeks to do more than make symbolic gestures. The Germans never wanted "war on two fronts." That was why they signed their treaty with the Soviet Union in August 1999, Now, thanks to Hitler, they have got it. It is obvious that their Luft' gaffe is not sufficiently strong to attack Britain and the Soviets at the same time on a scale which might have a decisive effect. And they have therefore to concentrate upon one front at the expense of the other. Doubfless they believe that they will be able to put up with the losses on the western front while they make sure of a quick victory on the eastern one. But are they so sure of a quick victory there? It is noticeable that the German propaganda bureau is putting out stories of momentous success which will be reported within a short while. They are not recording momentous successes which have been scored. And if the time ever comes when they can with truth claim victories which they have up to now won only on paper, then the Allies and Soviet Russia can rest assured that the cost of these victories has been infinitely greater than the Nazis ever anticipated.
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