GAINS CONSOLIDATED
STRENGTH OF THE ALLIES IN THE AIR. VALUE OF THE BRITISH UNITS. (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 12. The British United Press Paris correspondent states that French positions on German soil have been greatly consolidated. The fire of the French artillery is directed mainly to the rear of the Siegfried Line, with the object of preventing the enemy bringing up reinforcements to supplement his permanent garrisons, which at some points are merely skeleton. French air experts assert that the
arrive of the Royal Air Force units will assure the Allies of early supremacy in the skies on the West Front. Britain has the fastest fighters and medium bombers in the world. France has the deadliest and speediest bombers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 8
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