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NAZI DISTORTION REFORTS OF THURSDAY’S AIR BATTLES [ British Official Wireless I Received Aug. 12, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY. Aug. 11. The Sunday Observer comments editorially on German accounts of last Thursday's air battles over a convoy in the Channel and of shipping losses in which the distortion of the truth has now reached a quite ludicrous pitch. It writes: "To put the best face on a reverse may be a temptation to the most unscrupulous belligerent. But for turning it into victory there must be urgent reasons. The Germans, who sank 5000 tons of shipping in the Channel fight, call it 67.000 in their bulletins, and reduce their loss of 60 planes to 10, and increase the 16 British casualties to 49. Hitler appears to appreciate that truth is his most dangerous enemy.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 189, 13 August 1940, Page 5
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