June 27.
Overshadowed to a very large extent by the German invasion of Russia, important developments have been taking place in the air in the struggle between Germany and Britain, The RAF, has commenced to strike back in a manner which promises that the air offensive which began two weeks ago est counter-stroke known history, By day and by night British aero~ planes nave been going into Germany with the principal industrial areas as the immediate objectives and have been causing such damage which even the German com~ mand has had finally to admit was "very severe." That is the first admission by the Germans of the effectiveness of the British air= raids and definite proof that the enemy can no Tonger conceal even from its own people the undoubted efficiency of the British air force, British aeroplanes according to the DNB. the German official news agency have caused heavy damage in several paris of western Germany," from which, knowing the enemy's habit of minimizing all adverse reports, it may be taken f6r granted that the damage has been devastating,—fust as devastating as, say, at Hamburg. The reports of the evacuation of Germans. from threatened areas into Norway is quite sufficient indication that the Germans are now well on the receiving end of the war in the air, and are not finding it-at all to their liking.
Thus after months of patient "endurance, during which the Battle of Britain was decided against Germany, and that country forced to resort o indiscriminate night bomb-ug, steady labour in the British Isles, coupled
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