CHANGED TACTICS

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 324, 22 October 1940, Page 1

CHANGED TACTICS

GERMAN MARAUDERS ADMISSION OF FAILURE INCREASE IN ESCORTS TENTH CARRY BOMBS (News by Cable.) RUGBY, Oct. 20. Air experts are agreed that the German change of policy in the the bombing attacks on Britain may be regarded as a tacit admission of the failure of the previous efforts and evidence of respect for the Royal Air Force.

It now appears that the enemy is directing his bombing merely against morale and the serious bombing is concentrated in the hours of darkness. The fact that the British losses of machines has been little fewer than the German shows the effect of the new policy by day which relies on the use of fighters and fighter-bombers, ' instead of fighters escorting bombers. Bomb-carrying fighters now come with large escorts which do not carry bombs and in several formations of more than 100 machines! not more than 10 carried bombs. The enemy has managed by this means to penetrate the British defences with a few fast planes and pounce on the intercepting fighters with superior numbers. The relative losses, although so different from those of a month ago, are not such as to cause concern as the production on both sides at present far outstrips losses. Aeroplanes regularly arriving in Britain from the United States alone are more than double the losses on the scale of the past two weeks.