METHOD FOUND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1941, Page 5

METHOD FOUND

TO DEFEAT NAZI NIGHT RAIDERS SIR HUGH DOWDING CONFIDENT’ WORST WILL BE OVER BY SPRING. ! RESULTS OF 19W AIR BATTLES. | (I3y Tv!t -Pr<-.-. Ass<M.‘laUt>n--Cop.yritEht) LONDON, December 31. A message from Ottawa stales ilia! Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the Brit- ! ish air representative, when i eii mule to Washington In | eoiiler mi the stamlurdisation ol aircraft e<|iii|mienf, said: "A nieihod Las been found tn defeat the German night raiders, I mmfidently believe it won’t he long before all the weight and sting is taken i from the night-bombing attacks. He added that the equipment for the new method was. rapidly being completed. and he expected that the worst of the night bombing would be over by

the rpung In London a high Air Force official stated that Britain's air strength is considerably stronger than when the German Invasion plans were broken up last September. All the losses | have been made up and the actual number of reserve aidcraft has In-

}creased, ; The Air Ministry report that inorc . than 350<) German warplanes were dcs- } over Britain and round her • shores during 1940. Of these 30f't0 were shot down by fighters and the repmiiiuler by untl-aircruft guns, llic buli luon barrage imd other defence forces, 'Die Royal Air Force in IMO lost 1050 • pkmes. Four hundred of the pilots j were soved.