VLLIED LOSSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 9

VLLIED LOSSES

THE AIR CAMPAIGN

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NAZI IMAGINATION

FORLORN EFFORT OF PROPAGANDA

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(British Official Wireless.) ' .*.. I (Received November 15, 12.50 p.m.)] "77.?

. RUGBY, November 14. '} A claim which is being circulated through German news channels putt . ting the Allied losses in the air wa* „ £ at 80 planes is scouted in London** It is suggested that the measure of il£ Jaccuracy is to be found in the accom-* :__ panying statement tliat the- German losses are only 17. In fact 17 Gew -^'- man aircraft have been brought down - ; on or near the British coast^ alone— ? t 15 by other aircraft and two by anti- ~ I aircraft gunfire. The Qerman state* y ment therefore conveniently, neglects '* '- all other German losses in the air since the war began. ;„- While official Quarters are not to be - .••_ drawn into denials affording disclosure of the actual Allied losses, which it has no doubt is one of the purposes of this characteristic Nazi misrepre-" , sentation, there is some comment % among welj-informed observers on one „-X feature of the German story which -'&■ represents "the proportion of British *;, and French losses within the imagm* \- f \

ary total mentioned as 16 and 64 re- , „*•• spectively. It is believed that the ob- ? ject is to create the impression that - y Britain is leaving air battles to S France, m accordance with the per- -"j sistent and rather obvious Nazi ef- ,X' forts to drive a wedge between the r Allies. This particular attempt! takes _X" on a somewhat forlorn aspect when it '<£ is regarded against the background of / ■* actual achievements of the Royal Am; *X, Force in France and its almost dailyt reconnaissance flights over large areas M of Germany. Incidentally the British r 5 losses /on these reconnaissance flights f~3 have been remarkably iew in propor* y$ tion to the distance covered and tha i ,j taste accomplished—a fact that speaks r *"*/ highly both for the skill' of the pilots , "& and the quality of the aircraft ' "<- In contradiction of implications of <. -, J inaccurate figures put about by the 1 Nazis, it can be stated that the Britishr "--Jf and French Air Forces are'doing their > ''^ full share in l mutually agreed spheres**