HOLDING THEIR HAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 7

HOLDING THEIR HAND

ALLIED FORCES

FULLY PREPARED

4F NAZI ATTACKS ARE INTENSIFIED

(Daventry Broadcast.)

LONDON, Sunday Night,

A report received today from the 8.8.C. observer with the R.A.F. in France states that the Allies, and particularly the R.A.F., are fully prepared to resist any intensification by Germany of attacks in the air as threatened recently by Field-Marshal Goerhig, if these lead to indiscriminate bombing.

British planes have not yet made any attacks on, the enemy for fear of killing civilians, and have not carried bombs on their reconnaissance flights over Germany. The present attitude oi the R.A.F. is that there are quite legal military objectives, but they coijld not be attacked without causing death or Injury to civilians, and for that reason the R.A.F. has held its hand.

It is considered that the British planes have a better performance than that of the enemy's, and are more suited to war conditions, and the airmdn show much more,.determination and skill in. pressing home attacks.

Much the same view is held by an American correspondent with the R.A.F. The opinion is expressed that the airmen rathe/ than the machines will win the day.

A report on the French Air Force speaks of the excellent morale of the personnel. . From the beginning of the war till October 20 the. French lost eight pursuit planes and the Qermans twenty-four.