MASS AIR ATTACKS
GERMANY HANDICAPPED "CANNOT AFFORD RISK" PARIS, Oct. 20. Germany cannot afford to carry out mass air raids, says M. Henri de Kerillis, who is known at the Winston Churchill of France, writing in L’Epoque. The raids on Britain, he said, had proved that the advantage lay with the defenders, since the attacking aeroplanes lost about. 30 per cent of their number.
“For this season Germany cannot afford mass raids,” added M. Kerillis. “Until proof to the contrary is forthcoming, I remain convinced that orcc the first effect of surprise has passed German bombing will more easily be rendered ineffective than is generally supposed,”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 4 November 1939, Page 5
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106MASS AIR ATTACKS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 4 November 1939, Page 5
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