Aug. 26.
That the Germans are by no means satisfied with the results of their air-raids over Great Britain is clearly demonstrated, firstly, by their endeavours to persuade the world at Jarge of the heavy casualties which they claim to have inflicted on the RAF, and, secondly, by their claims that the British air'resistance is breaking and that the moral of British troops and civilians is being affected by the reticence of the authorities regarding the effects of the raids. German. claims as fo the damage alleged to have been: in-Micted on the R.A.F. have already been shown to be just as foolish as their allegations concerning the destruction of the British Navy. The other two prevatieations fare just as easy to deal with, The wish is undoubtedly father to the thought when Berlin claims that the British defence by pursuit and interceptor aeroplanes has become considerably weaker, The manner in which the German raiders are dealt with and Fought off, so few of their original numbers being able to penetrate the British defences, clearly demonstrates this not to be the case.
On Saturday somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1,600 German planes, bombers as well as fighters, attacked England. About eighty appear to have got through to London flying over the city at a very great height, so far up that accurate bombing was entirely out of the question. Over the south-east coast the German planes came over like a fleet, states Reuter, "but they ran like rabbits, when engaged by the anti-nireraft defences and British fighters. If of some eight hundred bombers and an equal number of escorting fighters, some few score manage to pierce the first line of British defence, it is quite clear that there is nothing wrong with the men entrusted with the task of fighting off the
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