New York, Aug. 16.
"It begins to lock as if the first and perhaps crucial test may be in the air alone and land forces may become mere onlookers," states the "New York Times" in commenting op air raids over Britain.
"If this is a new Trafalgar or a 4940 version of Waterloo the extra-Ordinary fact is that the R.A.F., outnumbered, still holds command of the air over Britain."
A survey of American newspapers during the past few days of intensive air raids on Britain shows that accountg of battles seen by American correspondents in Britain are published far more prominently than dispatches from Berlin.
Editorial comment is full of praise for the R.A.F. The huge disparity between the British communiques and German claims is widely discussed in the press and over the radio but the tendency is to prefer British accounts and accuse the Germans of exaggerations.
Reports of RAF. raids on Germany and Italy are extensively displayed. There is a negligible amount news coming from Germany about British raids. Photographs of British defences and wrecked German planes are published. There are few German pictures to compete with them.—Reuter.
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