"WAR IN THE AIR"
HAIG HANDICAPPED
GERMAN RAIDS ON LONDON
LOSS OP SQUADRONS
United Press Association—By Electric Teleerapb -Ciipyrlnbt (Received • March 27, 1 p.m.) LONDON, March 26. How German air raids on , London robbed Marshal Haig'of squadrons of badly-needed aeroplanes is revealed in the fourth, volume of "War in. the Air." Following the first daylight bombing raid in 1917, the Government ordered two crack squadrons to return from France. Haig protested that they would make air victory more difficult.
It was noticeable that the German air attack on the British trenches, including Richthofen's "circus," increased when the squadrons were withdrawn, and just when further air re-inforcements-were ready for France the Germans again bombed London, causing the Government to order the reinforcements to remain in England. Ha'ig protested at being deprived suddenly and unexpectedly of forces on which he was counting to carry out the most important offensive.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 9
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147"WAR IN THE AIR" Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 9
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