TRIBUTE TO LONDON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 5

TRIBUTE TO LONDON

PAID BY PRIME MINISTER FURTHER ORDEAL COMING. WILL BE RETURNED TILL NAZIS' ARE EXTINGUISHED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. July 14. The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, spoke at a luncheon given by the London County Council, following upon a Civil Defence Forces parade. He devoted his opening words to a tribute to London’s response to the German attack and said that although there had been a lull in enemy air attacks recently, plans had been made to meet even worse raids in the future. Britain could take it and would return it twofold and fourfold, month upon month, year upon year, if necessary, until the Nazi regime was exterminated or torn to pieces by i the German people. . It was time the Germans, in their own homeland, suffered as the Londoners had suffered. The R.A.F. had dropped over Germany in recent raids half the tonnage of bombs dropped over Britain since the outbreak of war. He had asked the ministers concerned to prepare for the autumn and winter for. the same ordeal as was endured last year, only rather worse. Mr Churchill declared: “We shall have no truce or parley with Hitler or the grizzly gang who do Hitler’s wicked worst. We say: ‘Deal out your worst, we will do our best’. ” AIR LOSSES BALANCE STILL AGAINST ENEMY. IN PERIOD OF BRITISH OFFENSIVE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 13. Britain's continued air offensive against industrial Germany in no wise disturbs British air supremacy. This. ! is demonstrated in figures of British and Axis losses during recent weeks. The figures for the week which ended at dawn on July 13 are as follows: — German losses over Britain, 22 (20 by night), R.A.F. losses, nil; German losses over Europe, 82 (one by night). R.A.F. losses, 85 (30 by night). From the latter 85 machines eight of the pilots are safe. The Axis and Vichy losses in the Middle East, excluding figures in the R.A.F. (Middle East) communique of July 13, which is not yet obtainable.

are 30. The R.A.F. losses are 11. Meanwhile the- Royal Navy has announced that one enemy aircraft was destroyed by naval and merchant ships during the week and that one was destroyed by a merchant ship on an unspecified date.