Exactly one year ago yesterday ithe inhabitants of Berlin called Field-Marshal Herman Goering, Hitler's Luftwaffe chief (according 'o recent reports he was not as clever as Rudolf Hess and failed to shift his great bulk in time to avoid a concentration camp or, at least, arrest in one form or another and deprive-ion of rank) nothing more and nothing less than a plain, unvarnished liar—and a bad liar to boot. It was on August 25, 1940 that the Royal Air Force sent Goering's stock hurtling earthward with a three hours' raid on the capital of Hitler's Third Reich. As they scooted for shelters as fast as their legs could carry them that night, Berliners were taught that to put truss in the bombastic statements of their leaders was pure folly. For three hours or more hey huddled together in shelters—plenty of time for them to musa sadly over Goering's promises that not one enemy bomb would find its mark on Germany's: greatest city, In the early hours of Angus: 26 when they emerged, bedraggled and sleepy, from those shelters, fires were raging in several parts of the capital....and a few hours later they were Since that day the Royal Air Force, daily grow-visited the Nazi capital on many occasions and ing stronger and stronger in striking power, has cowed Berliners have tasted the same sort of horror that Goering flung upon London. and other' cities in Britain. Those heavy; raids an Berlin and other vital German centres are only just starting in earnest. Soon the drone of many. hundreds of British bombers (already 300 have taken' part in one raid) will strike terror into the heart of the German people and any amount of lying by Goebbels and his' satellites will fail to explain why Goering's promises were not kept by a Germany that was supposed to be strong enough to spare the horrors of war. As if to add to the misery' the Nazi leaders decided, to la thereby, giving thë signal for another powerful air force to visit German centres and drop more bombs to supplement the terrible missiles that the R.A.F. daily unloads on vital centres. Already the Russians have raided Berlin on several And, once upon a time, Goering German cities would never be violated by enemy aircraft. Today the German people must realize what liars their leaders are (or were, in the case of Goering). Already there are rumours of mutterings from the masses. that bear the suffering thrust upon them by and his Nazi gang. who pr. them victories and rich spoils. Countless poundings by the R.A-...which is now in a position to outweigh Germany's Luftwaffe, aided by the Russians, in time will change those mutterings it in 1918.
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