GERMAN TACTICS FOILED

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23129, 19 September 1940, Page 7

GERMAN TACTICS FOILED

EFFECTIVE ANSWER BY R.A.F. LOW RATE OF BRITISH LOSSES (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) (Received September 18, 8 p.m.) RUGBY, September 17. Reviewing the experience of the last few weeks, air experts express growing confidence in the ability of the Royal Air Force to defeat any fresh tactics which the German Air Force may attempt, just as effectively as the answer has been found to the Luftwaffe’s daylight raids. Meanwhile, its night raids have proved to be incapable of doing any real military damage, and it is now considered clear that the German Air Force has suffered from a lack of men skilled in night-flying. Events h av e established that when forces of daylight raiders were sent over in such force as might effect important damage, anything up to 50 per cent, of them were destroyed. .The enemy has failed to defeat the Royal Air Force in these daylight raids in spile of frequent and marked changes in the pattern of attack. High-flying bombers with layers of fighters stepped up round them were quite unsuccessful, Mixed formations of bombers and fighters spreading fanwise on reaching the English coast were