GERMAN LIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 5

GERMAN LIES

FIGURES OF AIR LOSSES REVERSED CLAIMS IN HIGH COMMAND COMMUNIQUE. WARSHIP’S ALLEGED EXPLOIT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 10.45 a.m.) BERLIN, July 14. A communique states: “During an armed reconnaissance over the Channel, German fighters attacked several convoys, damaging four merchantmen. A fierce air battle ensued, in which ten British fighters and one German fighter were shot down. “Five British planes were shot down during raids on Northern and Western Germany. Non-military objectives were damaged. We lost three planes yesterday. “A German warship reports sinking 185,000 tons of merchant shipping.” BRITISH COMMENT EXPOSURE OF ENEMY METHODS. “MANUFACTURING VICTORIES.” (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Authoritative comment on the German communique above) stales that the German High Command continues to manufacture victories and write down losses. Today’s is a perfect example of the practice of reversing the British figures. The Air Ministry reported yesterday that 10 German bombers, and fighters were shot down and that one British fighter was missing. •The Germans today claim to have shot down 10 and lost only one. Their final claim, to have brought down 15 British planes yesterday at a cost of three German planes, exemplifies the German technique of seeking to establish an artificial ratio of five to one in their favour by manipulating the figures.