Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
u. 5. Booklets Bomb
France With Promise
OF Arms for Patriots
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Third Million corries
Word Of Americas
About War Effort
By JOHN C. HENRY.

by JOhN u. HENRY.
Bringing directly to "the pa
triots" of Occupied France the
assurance of President Roosevelt
that the United Nations will
some day furnish them the
weapons for revolt against Axis
oppression, Royal Air Force fly
ers have completed a second Sc
ries of American pamphlet bomb
ings over the European continent,
the White House revealed today.
First Of these offensive operations
was announced on January 8 when
it was said that about 100000
leaflets had been dropped over
France. Today, 1T was announced
that an additional 1000 900 OF this
initial pamphlet had since been dis
tributed and about 100000 of sec
ond and differently worded docu-
ment has been scattered over six
industrial and waterfront areas.
Explosives for Germany Hinted.
German territory proper has not
been invaded" in this fashion, it
was pointed out, and it was implied
further that eventual bombardment
of the Reich will be by explosives
rather than by words.
For completion of the first bomb
ing" operation, the American and
British authorities assigned another
$4,000 pamphlets to the Paris area,
experimenting / $4,000 which had
been dropped there in the first
series of raids. In addition, 246,000
have since been dropped in the
BouIges sector and $4,000 around
Dion. Lille was intensively
bombed" on the first occasion by
100000 leaflets.
For the second pamphlet, written
mostly out of President Roosevelt's
address to Congress on the state Of
the Union on January 6, officers
directing the distribution assigned
10000 to the ST. Malo area, $4,000 to
Brest, 5000 to Cherbourg, 276,000
to Rennes, 1880 to st. Nazaire and
$4,000 to Guingamp-Lundeac.
All are close to the Atlantic sea-
board strip of Occupied France
where sabotage and unrest among
the French population might be
turned to greater advantage Of the
United cause.
Address Gave Figures.
Presumably. the pamphlet ex-
tracted from the Presidents annual
message the statistical measure
ments of the American war effort
a nations determination to produce
$4,000 airplanes in 1912 and 1913,
tanks in the total Of 10000 and
shipping amounting to 100000
lightweight tons. The latter, in
cidentaliy, is figure that can well
be understood by the shipping
wise populations of the areas Sc
lected,
It was in this message, too, that
the President promised the world
that I'VE shall carry the attack
against the enemy-we shall hit him
and hit him again wherever and
whenever we can reach HIM"
For the especial interest of the
French and others like them who
now are under rule of a conqueror,
the President promised in his mes
sage and again in leaflet No. 2 that:
"Our overwhelming superiority of
armament must be adequate to put
weapons of war at the proper time
into the hands of those men in the
conquered nations who stand ready
to seize the first opportunity to
revolt against their German and
Japanese oppressors,, and against
the traitors in their own ranks,
known by the already famous name
Of Quislings. AS we get guns to the
patriots in those lands, they too will
fire shots heard round the world
Emphasize About Effort.
In making the announcement of
this second bombing, the White
House pointed out that it is in
tended to bring home to the people
under occupation that the United
States is fully in this war and to
emphasize the extent of the effort
we are going to make. Since both
press and radio Of these conquered
countries is fully controlled by Axis
arms, this type of information is
not available through ordinary
channels.
In addition to the pamphlet dis
tribution, constant dissemination OF
short wave radio broadcasting is
being directed at Norway, the Low
land countries, the Balkans, France,
North Africa and the Far East, 1t
was said.
First American experiment of the
nature of the pamphlet distribution
came in April, 1917, three weeks
after the United States entered
World War l. At that time, several
hundred thousand copies of Presi-
dent Wilson'S address to Congress
calling for acceptance OF a state of
war with Germany we're flown over
German territory by British, French
and Belgian aviators.