New York, Sept. 24. Royal Air Force attacks on Channel bases have cost the Germans 60,000 picked troops. according to a cable to the "Herald-Tribune" quoting neutral sources.
An order forthe invasion of Britain was countermanded on September 16 because of the beating administered to the German Air Force on the previous day, when 187 German planes were brought down, the report adds.
Ninety-eight per cent. of German bombs released over London fell on civilian sites, says the "Herald-Tribune's" London correspondent, who adds that this is making the British an embittered enemy such as Germany did not dream of after the last war.
The lieffer" defence of the capital and the continued high moral of the people are featured in other dispatches from London.
Mr. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, is causing his associates much anxiety by his refusal to stay in shelters, even insisting on driving during night raids, says the "New Rumania Denies Soviet A proclamation has been issued to bring under military law certain classes of civilians employed with the Army who normally are subject to such law only when a state of war exists.
This proclamation tightening up the existing "state of siege" regulations appears to be responsible for earlier incorrect reports of introduction of martial law.
The capital is completely calm and life in the country-side is proceeding normally.
A. successful raid on the harbour of Benghazi, one of the chief supply bases in Libya of Marshal Graziani, Italian commander-in-chief in Africa, is reported in the latest R.A.F. communique.
The raid is said to have resulted ina direct hit on a ship. Bombs were also dropped on a warehouse alongside the mole, and fire broke out among warehouses.
Yesterday Menasir aerodrome was also bombed as well as an Italian motor transport concentration near Sidi Barrani. Direct hits on lorries, the communique says, were absorbed.
An Italian raid on Malta on Sunday damaged ten houses in a village, but two raids on Aden are stated to have caused no damage.
The South African air force was very active, raiding El Katulo and Dimo.
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