"the great air battle which been in progress over this island for the last few. weeks recently attained high intensity. "It is too syn te attempt to assign limits either to its scale or to its duration. We must certainly expect that greater efforts will be made by the enemy than any he has so far put forth. Hostile ai fields are still being developed France and the Low Cevmtries, and the movement of squadrons" and material for attacking ty 4s sill proceeding. ite plain that Hitler could defeat in his air attack on without sustaining the most serious injury. If after all these boastings, blood-curdling threats and Turi accounts trumpeted round tive world of the frightful da inflicted, of the vast numbers of our air force he has. shot down—so he says—with so litle Los: to himself, aller tales of panic-stricken British crouched in their holes cursing the jovernment which ted pass (lod laughter) is whole onslaught were forced tamely to peter out, the Fuehrer reputation for veracity of stalemer might be seriously impugned Cloud laughter).
"We may be sure. therefore, that he wilt continue as long as he has strength to do so, Favourable to tritai the other hand conditions and course of fights have so. far been favourable to us. 1 tok the Howe we. months ago that whereas ce our fighter alveralt were Wont to inflict loss of two oF three to one pon the Germans, and in the at Dunkirk, which was a communications, storage depots, which process will continue upon an nereasing scale until the end of war. or may in another year n dimensions hitherto undreamed Murals one of the most certain, not the shortest, of all ronds of vie~
"ven If Nazi legions stood trlumph= ut-on the Black Sea or Indeed upon Caspian, even if Hiller wus at the iter of India, It would profit him nothing if at the some time the entire economic and scientific apparatus of German war power lay shattered and pulverized at home.
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