PRESS SATISFIED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 81, 5 April 1940, Page 8

PRESS SATISFIED.

Shooting Down Of Nazi Air Raiders. MUST BE NO EXAGGERATION. British Official Wireless. (Received 2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, April 4. The fact that the total number of enemy aircraft brought down since the outbreak of war over Britain and home waters yesterday reached 52, against the loss of only one R.A.F. machine, is regarded as highly satisfactory, although, as "The Times" says, it would be foolish to exaggerate either the scale or the nature of tiie losses inflicted upon these tip and run raiders. "The loss in raiding machines is negligible to an air force of any "size," says tne paper. "The onTy features of the story deserving of any emphasis are the less of trained, crews, the technical disparity at the moment between German bombers of the types used and British lighters, and the' complete discrediting oi the German claim to be masters ot the North Sea. "Xor must it be thought that casualties in all kinds of air operations are so one-sided, or that the strength of the German air force as a whole is necessarily an exploded myth."