VALIANT LONDON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 5

VALIANT LONDON

UNSHAKEN BY WEEKS OF BOMBING ALL ESSENTIAL WORKERS CARRYING ON. GERMANY'S AIRCRAFT LOSSES (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) 1 LONDON. September 29. The third week of the battle of London has come and gone. To thousands of Londoners these three weeks have meant death or mutilation of their loved ones and destructions of their homes and household treasures. Many of these have moved out to safer and quieter areas in which to carry on their part in the Empire's battle. Hundreds of thousands of others, inluding all o'f London’s essential workers, remain in the capital, tempered by suffering to a resistance which is steel-like in its sharpness, its anger, its resilience and strength and determination. Indeed, that is the mood throughout this island, based on the• knowledge that the losses are far from one-sided. Germanys’ three weeks of blitzbombing has cost her more than 1000 planes, compared with 283 British, and her losses in airmen have been many times ours. Germany’s total losses of aircraft at midnight on Friday night were 4G04 and Britain’s 1381.