R.A.F. Questions
The news that is vouchsafed to us about the operations of the Air Force is scanty, but it is enough to show that it is our side which is constantly on the offensive and dis- . tinguishing itself by daring raids. In a communiqué in which the Air Ministry tells us of day and night reconnais- sances over Germany brief record is given of a flight over Berlin and Potsdam—a significant demonstration of what our air squadrons, taking off from French soil, are capable of doing at high altitudes, apparently on this and on several previous occasions without loss. There seems no reason why we should not have had more specific info• v.ation about the attack on the German fleet in the Heligoland Bight last Friday, concerning which the German news agency alleged than five British machines were shot down, and our Air Ministry merely said: " Some of our aircraft have not yet returned." Less laconic was the Ministry of Information's announcement about the heroic air battle of Sunday, .when five British planes engaged fifteen German fighters, and though only one of our machines came back safely it suc- ceeded in shooting down two of the enemy. The German radio on Saturday asserted that 37 French and 26 British planes had been brought down in the first month of war. Subsequently the British newspapers have been allowed to say that the German losses have been greater. What were our losses? We look forward to a statement by Sir Kingsley Wood as full and as frank as Mr. Churchill's.
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