The Germans are so busy giving explanations as to why their Blitzkrieg against the -Russians has not proceeded according to timetable that it is obvious there must be more than a little confirmation of the Soviet claims that the German offensive has been held and that the Russians have been able to counter-attack. Even the Germans admit this, for in their local propaganda organ of yesterday's issue a story was carried with the daption:—"Counter attacking Soviet Forces Suffer Heavy Losses." They claim that these counter-attacks were defeated, it is true, but the main fact is that the Russians are now able to assume some degree of initiative, which formerly was not theirs, and point to a certain amount of stability in the situation which was. lacking before. The sheet in question also pretends to weep crocodile tears over the casualties, which the Germans claim they are obliged to inflict upon the Russians because of the tenacity of their resistance, in an article headed "Moscow Responsible For Senseless Butchery of Millions."
Alleging that the German-Soviet campaign had been shifted to a new platform with new consequences for war conduct, the Trans-Ocean message goes on to state that they are:—
be superior also in Soviet Russia, The Soviet Germa war laetis of driving velas encompassing to command has cognizance of this strategy but could not live up to it, Ne ik commanders allowed is to perish rather than accepting the 2, Bolshevism has Killed the soul of There re. al that dora e. all that is a llapse is unknown where iyand his Belgian Army strategy ought to have ceased to exist, yet continue fighting until they die, takes a lot of beating. In a war, which is not a purely military concept, ssu German staff college likes to pi the Russians. It is very naughty latter to seek to defend themselves when attacked, and the German propaganda is shocked that they should make sacrifices in doing so, but the main and most important fact is that in making the rubbishy explanation quoted above the Germans are admitting what the Russians claim, Raids On Germany The promise made by the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, that Germany would feel heavier and still heavier blows from the R.A. Fas Britain's supplies of bombers increase, is borne out by the list of raids made over, German cities during the six weeks which ended on the night of July 26, compiled by the Air Reporter of the "Daily Express" and published in a Special telegram elsewhere today. The importance of these raids is twofold. In the first place they inflict tremendous damage on the Nazi war machine and communications. They have forced the Nazis in many cases to adopt the same system of dispersal of factories that Mr. Churchill described in the House of Commons the other day when referring to alleged delays in British production. Only the dispersal which the Nazis have to undertake is much more difficult than anything which might be done in the small British Isles, The distances in Germany are much greater, and the differences between Germans in the eastern part of the country and those in the west are much more pronounced than between, say, the man from Bristol and the man from Canterbury. This latter is an important factor. since when factories are dispersed. a dispersal of workers necessarily follows. The further a worker is removed from the home in Which he was brought up. the more does the hardship of separation from his family and the change of atmosphere affect him, with a result that his moral is weaker. In the second place these raids are bringing home to the German people in a way they have not experienced since the Napoleonic wars, the horrors of modern conflict. It will be recalled that during the sustained series of raids on London last September, Nazi airmen were encouraged to broadcast the pleasure they felt in bombing a block of flats. Many will remember the indecent gloating over the terrible destruction wrought in Coventry, In September lass and even at the time of the Coventry raid. the Germans had had little or no experience of being bombed themselves, and doubtless good Nazis could sit beside their radio sets and rub their hands with glee, as they heard of the ghastly destruction being inflicted upon the hated Englishman. They had been taught that such things could not happen in Germany; They are now learning different. ly. How many of them, as they cower in their air raid shelters, think back to those days when they could sit in comfort by the fireside and hear tales of the sufferings of the English? How many compare their feelings now. when bombs are bursting all around them. to the enjoyment they got before? The R.A. is bringing home to them the fact that war is not only a success sion of celebrations of victories, but can be something too horrible for description. The careful direction by the R.A.F. of all bombs towards military objectives is in contrast to the Nazis' lack of discrimination. In Cologne, the industrial areas must by now resemble the centre of Coventry—where there are no industrial objectives—just after the Nazis had rained marshalling yards has given the R.A.F. an opp on that town. n eon! tunity which they have not been slow to take to cripple Germany's internal communications, The German citizen's whole life is disrupted by these raids. Such a thing has never happened to him before. And ahead lies the bleak prospect of still worse things to come.
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