London, Sept. 17.
Intensive British attacks on German invasion bases and feeding lines are considered to have seriously re-farded the completion of. preparations for an invasion, writes the Air Correspondent of the Press Association.
"Should an invasion be attempted, it is recognized that Britain must expect an attack on inland centres and towns on a more formidable scale than so far made.
"Not only has material destruction been wrought at invasion ports and elsewhere by Britain's bombers, but some confusion has been caused in necessarily complex administrative arrangements, All this, however, has not preveħted altogether a gradual increase in German concentrations."
The air war and other factors brought out in London today, the correspondent continues, are very encouraging to Britain. There is good reason to believe that Germany cannot maintain her present rate of aircraft production during a long period of sustained operations.
"The big losses she suffers whenever her air force comes over England in force must have an increasingly demoralizing effect on personnel, Oil depots, as well as plants for producing synthetic oil and high-grade lubricants, which have been attacked unceasingly by the Royal Air Force, are object of paramount importance, "As soon as she hus exhausted the 7,500,000 tons of oil she is thought to have plundered from German-occupied countries—not many. months hence—Germany's difficulties over oil will be intensified, There is little doubt that the oil she can get from Rumania and Russia will be far short of her minintum requirements from abroad.
"While the British Fleet remains in the eastern Mediterranean, the bulk of supplies from these two countries must go via the Danube or by rail, which imposes a drastic limitation on the quantity it is possible to obtain, "RAF, attacks on railway and canal communications throw more and more traffic on roads, producing an ever-increasing strain on supply routes to the front."—Reuter,
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