Show RAF Bomber Comm Command nd Blames French for Tactical Error I LONDON Oct 7 t UP The UP-The The royal air force bomber command telling for the first time in detail of its part in the war in the air said Tuesday that the French high command had refused to permit Italy or Germany to be bombed described the effect of British raids on civilian morale in Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and Italy and 2nd promised ed bigger big big- bigger bigger ger bombings of both as the nights grow longer It gave further details also of the smashing in m September 1910 1940 when Britain was at its weakest of the Invasion fleet which the Germans had assembled on the French coast coastIn In a booklet supplementing the fighter commands command's story in m the widely published Battle of Britain Britain Britain Brit Brit- ain the bomber command said that when Italy entered the war Britain assembled a fleet of bombing bombing bombing bomb bomb- ing planes at a French army airdrome airdrome air air- drome near Marseilles I The local French commander commander forbade an attack on Italy After hours of argument the British taxied their bombers into place I for a take off A fleet of French trucks were driven onto the field and surrounded surI surrounded sur sur- I rounded the British planes so they could not take off off it was wu asserted i. i i Similarly It was charged the French high command refused to permit Germany to be bombed even after the Germans attacked in Flanders The French it Is said held that the Germans must bomb first Hence accor according ng to the bomber command it proved impossible for the British even to bomb troop concentrations in Germany while the Maginot line was under attack It was admitted that raids on Italy af after er France had given in had not caused vital damage but butas butas butas as for the moral value it said The first time Turin was attacked attacked attacked at at- tacked the civilian population rushed for the scanty ill con iA shelters only to find them packed with the crews of antiaircraft guns and searchlights A number of officers were subsequently subsequently subsequently shot for cowardice |