"This most encouraging result shows that there are powers in reserve. It was inevitable that there should be, but demonstration is cull an argument that no logic can rival It also shows that R.A. fighters, when given any but overwhelming adds, can dispose of an opponent with remarkable economy, and no doubt the Fighter Command has digested the lesson.
"Goering must have marked it since it was, in effect, a pointed hint that the mass attack which he hoped ard hopes to send against Britain when the time is ripe, must again be deferred. for indefinite some period."
After referring to the Italian invasion of Egypt, "Ribbentrop wooing Spain, Mussolini warming his feet on the Grecian frontiers and Rumania plying for Axis hire," "Strategicus" asks what part the Battle of London plays in the enemy scheme and what is Marshal Goerings immediate objective in the great offensive against London.
Marshal Goering, concludes the writer, "is at this moment attempting to apply the expedient he used with decisive effect in Holland. There he not only attacked every aerodrome but also dropped in the rear of the inundation line—the main Dutch defence—a strong body of troops.
"In the attack on Lofidon he is vainly attempting to get behind the main British defensive line. We have now fortified the coasts of Britain, and the moat around it is far from encouraging. The enemy quite evidently does not like the prospect of an invasion, even with the assistance of a high tide that will allow his troops to geese-step on to frm land.—Reuter.
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