Nothing could be more foolish than to underrate the possi-
bilities of a mass attack by German aeroplanes. None the less the failure of such attack as there has been so far is little short of mysterious. Some idea exists, I know, that much more damage has been caused than we are told about. That sugges- tion, I believe, is completely baseless. I happen within the last few days to have seen several people, all unofficial, who have just come from different districts where there have been fre- quent German raids. From each of them I get the same impres- sion, that the Germans have been missing, night after night and week after week, targets that it seemed almost impossible not to hit. If it could be believed that Goering would wantonly risk machines and pilots on sucfi an errand it would almost look as If the attackers were deliberately deluding us into a sense of false security. But it is hard to see any sense in that. We can hardly hope to get off so lightly for much longer. The German bombers may or may not improve their aim—there is no par- ticular reason why they should—but sooner or later a chance bomb is bound to hit something that matters a good deal. But all the signs are that any success the Germans may achieve they will awe more to luck than to skill—which is the opposite of the truth about our own raiders in Germany.
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