LUFTWAFFE INFERIOR TO R.A.F.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 23 October 1942, Page 5

LUFTWAFFE INFERIOR TO R.A.F.

OBSERVATIONS BY MR BARROW VISIT TO BRITAIN NEARLY OVER London, Oct. 20. The visit of Mr T. A. Barrow. New Zealand Air Secretary, is now drawing to a close. He is attending the daily conference at the Air Ministry, where he is discussing the Empire air training scheme which will be carried on till at least 1945. Mr Barrow is actingchairman of the sub-committee on fin- | ance, in the absence of the financial adI In five weeks. Mr Barrow has visited

five out of the six New Zealand squadirons and has also met many New Zeai landers at other stations throughout i Britain. He said he was impressed by their splendid morale, their keenness and also their good health. [ Mr Barrow has been given every I opportunity to study the R.A.F.'s orj ganisation. He was particularly cheerled and interested to observe the 1 R.A.F.’s apparent supremacy over the j Luftwaffe, which is shown both by rej ports and also by the accounts of pilots I returning from operations, who state ! it is very hard to find a German air- | craft. I Mr Barrow met the Secretary of I State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, ; and the Parliamentary Under-Secre-j tary, Mr Balfour, also all members of I the Air Council, having attended sevleral Air Council meetings, j He discussed with Lord Keynes, i Bursar of King’s College, Cambridge, J and the Provost the question ol scholarships being awarded to New j Zealand airmen. Negotiations in this j connection are proceeding.—P.A. Special Correspondent.