Evening star., 1940-09-14
Foes War Industries
Hit, Reich Claims;
British Attacks Told
BY the Associated Press.

bcHL1N. sept. III ne GERMAN
high command. reporting continuing
night and day attacks on England
despite unfavorable weather, said
today numerous factories and docks
were hit in the London area and
airports. war industries and rail-
roads were bombed effectively" in
Southeastern England.
The daily communique acknowl-
edged British night attacks on the
Netherlands. Belgium and Northern
France last night, but said they
failed to cause noteworthy damage.
Germany herself spent bomb
less night, it was reported. A few
casualties were reported at Dor
drecht and Papendrecht, near Rot
terdam, in /bombings by British
raiders returning home after they
were said to have been driven away
from Western Germany.
Today's high command report, un-
usually brief, said eight British
planes were downed in yesterdays
were reported missing.
German raiders returning from
night raids on the British capital
said they encountered "extraordi-
narily weak defense" and that no
searchlights were seen.
Midlands Held Easy Target.
InceSsant Nazi air commandments
of London, German military circles
asserted, have forced the British to
concentrate their anti-aircraft de-
lenses in tn metropolitan region.
thereby depriving other parts of the
island of protection.
The industrial Midlands and 9TH
er sections rapidly are becoming easy
targets for German raiders. these
sources said, and added ominously
that aerial preparations for the
long threatened invasion of Eng
land were well in hand.
Adolf Hitler was represented as
"biding his own time" for the de-
cisive blow, but he won't be hur-
ried," one commentator said.
Speculation about "Nazi time
schedules is futile, this source said,
because Germany holds the initia-
tive and only the Fuehrer can de-
termine when England is ripe for
the final assault"
suggestion. which he said had been
advanced in England, that failure to
launch the invasion indicated any
weakness in the German war ma
chine.
Its propaganda trick for some
one to set the date for a great Hitler
stroke and usually it is set for the
immediate future" the spokesman
said
Then when the date passes there
Is great shout that Hitler missed
another bus. The fact is. he's bidlng
his own time, and he strikes when he
is ready"
Bombs Aimed at Oil Tanks.
Berlin spent its second night in
succession without an air raid as
German bombers continued their as
Saults on London. An authorized
spokesman said German bombs
dropped in the vicinity of Buck
ingham Palace" yesterday were
aimed at oil storage tanks.
The spokesman said another Nazi
squadron bombed Erith, on the rail-
way between London and Gravesend,
striving to hit pulp and paper mills.
One German plane was reported
missing.
The impression prevailed in the
German capital that the absence of
British raiders over Berlin meant
that the English we're concentrating
on the French, Belgian and Dutch
coasts in an effort to disturb any
concentrations of German troops or
equipment.
Discussing invasion prospects, the
military commentator of Dienst aus
Deutschland, private news service
with close Foreign Office connec-
tions, expressed the opinion that
'hastily-thrown together English
troops lack experience to hold up
German veterans of many cam
paigns
The Germans not only are tried in
battle but are masters of the new
technique of warfare. Dienst said.
This commentator counted much on
Nazi dive bombers to scatter British
defenders.