"We must be prepared for heavier fighting this month. The need -for the enemy to obtain a decision is very great, and if he has the numbers with which we have hitherto credited him, he should be able. to magnify and multiply his attacks during September, "Firm confidence is felt by responsible officers of the Royal Air Force in our ainiti meet itis largely increased scale (cheers). Our Air Force today is more numerous and better equipped than it was at the outbreak of the war or even in July, and we are far nearer to the German total than we expected to be at this early period of the war.
"The Germans claim that in July and August 1,921 British aircraft were destroyed. Our losses for the two months are 558. Our loss in pilots is, of course, happily very much less.
do not know whether Hitler believes in the truth of his own figures. The world is always content to see an enemy fall into an error of self-deception. This air attack, which is now raging, has turned out very @ifferent to what we imagined it would be before the war. More than 150,000 beds stood empty in war hospitals for the whole year. So far as the gir attack is concerned, we have found it up to the present, far less severe than what we prepared ourselves to endure.and are still ready, if necessary, to endure.
1,075 Civilians Killed in August me thousand and seventy-five civilians ere killed during August in Great Britain, and a sightly greater number were seriously in; Our Josses, even if multiplied two or three times, no one would contend were Serious compared with the majestic issues at stake (cheers), Apart from minor repairable d, 800 houses j] have been damaged beyond repair in the month of August, out of a total
were. The Prime Minister suggested Of 13,000:000 houses." would be worth while for a farther examination to be made of possible Maniu Sues Telegraph Company Bucharest, Sept. 5.
The leader of the Transylvanian Peasant Party, M. Julius Maniu, yesterday sued the state telegraph company for 2,000,000 lei on charges of holding up his.telegrams to Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito. Mussolini protesting against the Vienna decision.
It was understood that M. Maniu despatched duplicates of the telegrams through the German and Ttalian Legations here.—United Press.
Rea Army Calls Up New Classes Moscow, Sept. 5.
The Red Army yesterday called up four new classes for regular service, as the Balkan situation continued tense.
The classes of 1920, the first eight months of 1921, grammar school graduates of the class of 1921 and men of older classes heretofore ex: empted were called to the colour:
Service of the men called up—two years in the ranks of the Red Army, the Red Fleet, the border troops or the home troops—begins September 5.—United Press, Germans Not ili Hungary Budapest, Sept. 5.
Authoritative quarters here last night categorically denied reports from an American source that German troops were within the bounds of Hungarian territory.
The reports in question were "pure invention," and according to the same Hungarian quarters, "were launched with bad intentions.
The Hungarian Chamber of Deputies held a solemn session yesterday to mark the annexation of Tı mania, former Rumanian_prov The President of the Chamber, M.
Tasnadynagy, made a brief address on this occasion, welcoming the Hungarian of Transylvania and e ing the Hungarian nation's grai to the Axis powers—Havas.
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