AIR WARFARE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 5

AIR WARFARE

BRITAIN’S DEFENSIVE POWER

COLOSSAL PREPARATIONS. RESTRICTIONS ON POSSIBLE ATTACK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. August 5. Major Shollo Doug' Ids. speaking ill mi It. A.K cadets’ camp in Sussex, said : “We tire milking colossal prepar:)I ions for I lie yea r ol an at I ack in force by German bombers. On their side t lie Germans are being deterred from furl her adventures by 1 lie knowledge I lint if 1 hey hit us we shall hi! I hem. and very hard. 100. “Wc have shown by our recent flights to Marseilles the range which our heavy bombers possess. You also have seen something of the fighter organisation. We are confident that this organisation is now capable of preventing England from being attacked from the air. “Of course, we do not pretend we will be able to stop every bomber that puts out to attack this country from reaching its objective. In fact, it is probable that a fairly reasonable proportion will get through, particularly when the weather conditions are favourable to a bomber.

The object, however, of our fighter organisation is not to put an impenetrable barrier between the enemy bomber and its target. This is impospossible of attainment. The object is to cause so heavy a casualty rate to the enemy bombing forces that they will be compelled to restrict the scale of their attack on account of the heavy casualties and the difficulty of replacing those casualties.