London, Feb. 7. Britain must win the alt war as a prelude to victory, declared Air Com: modore Goddard in a broadcast, on Thursday night. He added that the recent Full meant the German Air Force had been having diMeulties.
"We have got through the into: pretty well. Over 490 enemy aircraft have been destroyed in the past tw months, The ratio of British suc cesses to losses in December and January was three to one, Forty enemy planes—most of them the much vaunted German dive bombers have been shot down near Malta in two months with only two British Tosses. It is a grand beginning.
"Since June the RAF, squadrons in the Middle Enst have destroyed over $80 Italian aeroplanes in the alr fand probably as many on the ground, Since June Britain has collected over 140 night bombers apart from those in the sea, British night_gunners shot down most of them'—Reuter, New Bi h War Credits Londor,, Fob. 7.
'The House of Commons' yesterday approved two new votes of credit. [These new appropriations were both for the cost of the fighting' services, +£000,000,000 to clear up the finance year ending March 31 and a further °£1,000,000,000 for the start of the Inow year beginning April 1, The first sum gives a total authoriz~ ed for fighting services during the year of £8,800,000,000, apart from Other "sums" provided ' in ordinary grants for general and national expense, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, said that the war was now costing around £12,500,000 daily. This figure exceeds the cost at the end of the last war, and it still growing.
Sic Kingsley Wood stated that the Government was alert to the danger of inflation.and would not hesitate to fake practical steps in defence of the' currency standards.—Reuter, Germans Apply to Enter British. Pioneer Corps London, Feb. 7, Applications for enlistment "in the Pioneer Corps have been received from 1,974 Germans and Austrians and 268 Italians. These figures were given by the Home Secretary, Her~ bert Morrison, ret lying to questions jin the House of Conimons yesterday. [He said he was not able to say how many of these applicants were Jewish since statistics were not kept on the basis of ereed or race british OM-Jeial Wireless.
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