Blitzkreig Definitely Failed

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 270, 2 November 1940, Page 7

Blitzkreig Definitely Failed

What German Plane Losses Revealed INVASION DANGER NOT YET PAST United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 9.40 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 3. The Times, in a leader, says: “Germany lost about 250 planes over Britain in Octobef, compared with the usual monthly total of over a thousand, but if the material casualties were fewer the loss of prestige was far greater. The figures confirm that the attempt to blast a way for an invasion definitely failed. “The reported use of Italian planes must be an effort to mask tho repulse purely of German forces by a demonstration of Axis solidarity but cannot conceal the fact that smaller numbers are delivering attacks, also that lighters and fighter-bombers capable of carrying smaller loads arc being employed and tactics revised to avoid combat. Moreover, the attacks generallj’- have been less intense even at night time. 11 The enemy losses at night have been heavier despite the use of fewer planes which may be an additional sign that Germany cannot hope to do at night what she failed to do by day. The defeat of the air attack as an instrument of invasion does not mean that the threat of invasion has passed. We must recognise that the mastery of the air must still be won everywhere and the possibility of a renewed assault against Britain is not merely something the enemy wants us to believe.”