Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-30
Victory Speech
Goering Is
Delayed Hour
Fuehrer at Front;
Marshal Promises
New Spring Drive
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
LONDON 1P.-Fast British
Mosquito bombers raided Ber-
lin twice today, once at II am.
and again just before Reichs-
marshal Hermann Goering
began speaking at noon, and
one bomber failed to return
from the second foray, 1t was
announced today.
BE- the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 30.-British
light bombers carried out the
first daylight raid in history on
Berlin today-10th anniversary
of the Nazi regime-to delay for
an hour the start of oratorical
exercises in which Adolf Hitler,
by proxy, and Hermann Goering
and Paul Joseph Goebbels in
person declared, the German
people must make a supreme eff
fort to win the war or succumb
to Bolshevism.
group OF Mosquito light bomoers,
Britain's fastest, swept over the Ger
man capital precisely at IL am. to
hurl explosives on the city and to
throw into an hours confusion the
start of broadcast by Reichsmar-
shall Goering.
From the German radio, which
never left the air. listeners here
heard muffled shouts and the ex-
plosion of what might have been
bombs or anti-aircraft guns.
Hitler with His Soldiers.
In Hitler's absence, with his SOL
diers," mis- address was read by
Propaganda Minister Goebbels to an
audience of 10000 in the Sports
palast. Goebbels, in a speech pre-
ceding the reading, declared that
only nations which speak of capit-
ulation go under. The word capitu-
lation never existed in our vocabu-
larry and it never will"
Hitler's proclamation told the Ger
man people that I'VE must fight on
doggedly until the whole continent
has been saved. The blows we may
suffer are nothing in comparison to
what they would be if barbarism
| swept across Europe
Marshal Goering, in his Commute
! speech earlier at the Air Ministry
Building, promised the Germans
ultimate victory. Originally sched-
uled to speak at II a.m-the hour
that the Mosquito bombers struck
he finally got under way at noon.
All Raj Planes Return.
The British Air Ministry said the
swift Mosquito bombers, Britain,s
newest type in action, returned safe
ly from their hazardous expedition
400 miles into hostile territory.
The Berlin radio subsequently Isl
sued this statement:
Three British planes penetrated
into Germany under the cover Of
thick clouds today. This operation
was carried out for propaganda
purposes only"
The announcer did not say where
the planes went.
A few minutes after the raiders
evidently had passed, Goering, who
once promised the German people
that British bombers r1.slr would
cross their frontiers, began his ad-
dress He said the British Air Force
would be repaid lone day"
Pledges Final Victory.
In pledging final victory to this
German people, Goering, In his 90
minute speech, said there would be
new Nazi offensive in the spring,
and declared: "On the day we
finally crush bolshevik resistance
will remember what the Raj has
done to Germany"
Abiding to the entrapped German
Army before Stalingrad, he said
that: I'm thousand years to come
every German will still know that
Germany. at Stalingrad, has set the
final stamp to ultimate victory. A.
people which fight as the Germans
are fighting at Stalingrad can and
must win"
1.-THE German people are taking
up action stations" Goebbels said
IF they think we have no reserves
left, they will soon see them"
The Hitler proclamation declared:
I'VE must fight on doggedly until
the whole continent has been saved.
The blows we may suffer are MOTH
ing in comparison to what they
would be if barbarism swept across
Europe"
Cites Penalty of Defeat.
| Goebbels warned the German peo-
pie they faced harsh punishment IL
they failed to give the utmost to the
war effort
Attempts to sabotage the German
war effort will be suppressed by the
severest penalties" ne said.
Defense regulations we shall
make will be binding on every one.
and no exceptions can be made"
The propaganda chief spoke for
So minutes before starting to read
Hitlers proclamation at 4:45 pm,
Berlin time.
Hitting hard at the win-or- perish
theme, which he has used before,
the Fuehrer's proclamation declared:
I'm this war there will be no such
thing as victors and vanquished. but
only those who survive and those
who are destroyed
Therefore National Socialism will
fight on fanatically."
Referring to broad hints already
made by Nad suokesmen that even
the death penalty might be invoked
against civilian slackers, Hitlers
statement said I'VE will tolerate no
attempts at Sinking, not by a single
individual"
During the long interval before
the start of Goering's speech, the
announcer kept saying at frequent
intervals: There will be few
more minutes delay In Marshal
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