MASTERS OF AIR

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 7

MASTERS OF AIR

SUPREMACY OP FJtENOM PLANKS ON THE WESTERN FRONT BRITISH AIRMEN IN BATTLE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 17 The Royal Air Force yesterday took part in a series of major battles on the Western Front, says the Basle correspondent of the Associated Press. Paris newspapers assert that French aeroplanes are masters of the air on the Western Front. It is stated that each days finds the Germans more nervous. Evidences of this are the enemy's incessant artillery barrage and fruitless infantry counter-attacks. German aeroplanes flying low try to bomb and machine-gun the French front lines, hut are “chased from tha sky.” The French High Command announced that a German air fleet was defeated in a battle low over tha front lines of the Western Front on Friday. The official communique states: “There has been a strong reaction by the enemy's aircraft and artillery on a part of the front. Our pursuit aeroplanes repulsed enemy machines which attacked our front lines at a low altitude.” The Paris newspaper Le Temp* points out that there has been no bombing of vital French communications and ascribes It to tlie sacrifice# of Poland, which has attracted the greater part of the German air force*