When it is officially announced that Ger-in last week, and no fewer than 2,000 the two months during which the g has been raging, it needs to be that these cre minimum figures.
resent the casualties inflicted upon e Times," a most conservative observer, imated that since the beginning of the "war. Germany had lost between 4,000 and the last two months the between 6,000 and 7,000 classes. The same cor-expresses the opinion, which it despite these losses are practically comes to assessing the loss of l en estimate of two-and-a-half persons as the average per machine has been accepted as accurate, which means thet the have lost between 15,000 and "17,000 trained: aviators in all branches, and, Blan ac8 ines can be completed far quicker Magnes cen be trained, it is in this i connection that the enemy losses have been not been trained so efficiently as have been that British success in fighting off the raiders i is to be al and the fact that the a German Luftwaffe has during these past two nths sustained the first major rebuff since The air action against Britain has up to the present presented two aspects. During August the German air force concentrated 1 upon British aerodromes in an endeavour to Smash R.A.F. fighter opposition. 'Though the Cetra fancied they had accomplished this, the swiftness with which British fighter the fact is that they did not, as is proved by "squadrons can take the air and beat off the Soon "they commenced' the borabing beliet- that they. had succeed-of London on September 7, first, of military objectives, and later indiscriminately in the a hope of producing that degree of disorganizaoan t, successful carrying out step in the plan for the invasion Britain. Testing out their belief last week nitd time in two months their large forma-mass daylight attack, for the
d another major defeat. They not succeeded in securing control of Britain. Indeed it may almost be said that at no time have ently, faced with the problem, which must e in urgency as the months pass, of 4 È to gain the much desired superiority, not E "in: numbers but also in ability. Withi ut it attempts at invading Britain are "doomed to failure. Nor can Germany, in view of a high R.A.F. officer whose Yopinion is quoted on another page, do any Teal, lasting damage to Britain's war potential areas, which fighters, guns and balloons are so successfully protecting. It would be "premature to insist. that the German command is wholly unable to solve the problem with which they are faced, though the diffi-A culties they have to encounter are already 80 great, and the British air effort is so ipidly approaching its peak, far ahead of f th "Germans, which appears to have passed, that it may with confidence be hat the chances of their ever doing e as the weeks go by. That is why ture can be viewed with considerable ism. Britain, and London in particular stood up under the German strafing paired moral strengthened by visual that the British air defence has driven from the air, and is acquitting itself well.
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