"Heavily Bombed Towns"

The two R.A.F.s--Royal and Red--last week gave Germany a nervous time. The Royal A.F. launched its biggest raid of the war, in which, by day and night, a total of 850 planes ranged over Germany and German-held territory. The Red A.F., apparently operating from Baltic island bases, kept striking by night, in relatively small numbers but persistently. Between them they kept Berliners under cover five nights out of seven.

There were signs that the strain was beginning to tell. A German spokesman paid tribute to the "heroism" of German civilians, admitted that there were some "heavily bombed towns in western and northern Germany," and, somewhat tardily, considering the record of the Luftwaffe, remarked: "All this bombing of civilians could have been avoided by really humane warfare."

The Berlin correspondent of the Tribune de Geneve reported that "perpetual air-raid warnings" had Germans jittery. "The Berliners worry. What are these bombers and where do they come from? Are they preparing to inaugurate a new strategy?"

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