Show economic highlights the daverage reader following the ae official war from the 00 belligerent ly howera goes around in of a daze they eh ey limply dont i make intake sense tho the Ger germans mairs tor for In instance will claim the or oc 00 60 british war pianos with losses of but laj of their own ships while the british on oa the sune triune day will reverse the figures tipi ami the dispatches patches of thu the war correspondents tire arc not a peat great dal boru helpful for the most these correspondents corre apon dents are able and honest reporters but they aro are subjected to in 1111 iron censorship aaril in no t couch their comment coin ment in fit vague terms and live warring governments mako anake suro sure that the corro corre deats sea only what they want them to see thus the confused contused cont used toader must look largely to other sources of information if lw he seeks an ap of the truth and luch ach other sources exist in fit tills this country tho the war awl aud navy departments part ments have channels of lafor mallon which have proven extremely accurate they maintain will and attaches ritt aches in countries with which we ive luno dip lonia tic relations chuse jo job b it la 18 to coldly discern tho the facts unaffected iby by ut and according to lat autv accounts those observers are aio convinced that tho the british Te ul olta of give lt ike in tile the meat great mar now going on oil in tho the air tire far diore accurate thau than tile tho lerhinan le tant illa t aa 99 good news to most of the american people who belleve that tile the defeat of england would gravely endanger us its apparently patently ly it Is truo true that british pilots nd ad plane piano are better than lio he german inore it la Is be in soule sonio orti cial circles that tho the british claim that empire plane llano production lias at last caught up with german Go Is 18 pretty close to the fact and md sonic somo also believe that british production Is 19 now ahead of loei lo 10 while german production of fira alno fighting aar craft Is I 1 losa than aile english ibave one very def little na vantage in tills air war only a handful of britis planes pianos tire sent over oer tile the continent allo while of german planes a aro re bont over ingland the nazla nazis are on of the offensive and britaina Brit ains raids on oil germany aro are largely of 11 t retaliatory eliar character acter T that it a t that when a german vilot pilot balls bails out of a destroyed ship and lands he ae goes to it a prison dump a british pilot who tavi isi Illin himself self with his parachute alv lives to fight for the crown baft an oteler lay ilay Geri geniau atin clauw peanea crashing S on oil tire the tight little island are arc of salvage value to the british as are their own planes this mean that germany ling lot lost tile the balance of air power so 0 o far as tho the statistics are con cariad mild best estlina tita i place the cupl bennun inlall first line force at alilin as against for i dog land imia and Geri germany nany probably has 11 more inore trained pilot but Is does mean that britain la is catching up tip E mid and it Is reported that some rv PC bently captured german allota md had j only half liala tile the training that la 19 given 1 pilots before they are sent gent into coni combat bat whether that la 19 the result of a shortage of pilots tn in germany or a polley policy of holding her best men inen in reserve for a fut 3 UTO tile attack of mv laev erity is a matter of question J american military eberts give britain a far better cliance chance of surviving now than they gave her two or three manthis back sonic some cataclysm of the near future may prove them percent wrong but 11 i s tiley they feel that ilas has little chance of making ills his alme table ellek click this time that Is of subduing angland before october j co lilles with its fogs and stoer all through fall fail and winter and early spring the BrIt british Isih isles are arc blanketed in a dripping mist it la Is 11 sig significant that an italian newspaper often ks for mus mua wid that the war may last two moro more years that 11 la fa a vory very different tune tihan than the aau leadelia lea deia fter after a tire the collapse of france Brit britain nin of course la Is still in grave danger if fog prevents fly lying it also provides a screen for nn art invasion over water Is known to have constructed ar aridas of shallow draft boats boata equipped to carry tanks arul and field pieces as well na as troop is eliat la one rea reason oil why groat great britain needed the RO overage over age destroy iera wo we recently recent li traded hor het for leases on olt naval and air babeo in british in tills this hemisphere aith the dotro detT obe has lost tahe number in drydock for repairs and those which must be kept else she probably had only CO or 00 60 of those ship of her ber own for or defense and ami destroyers axe are far more fec tive in the narrow channel than are larger slower and less easily at any rate tho the experts are becoming more hopeful over britain clit chances inces dally and abd they are arc aloo becoming that air rit tacks cannot produce nearly the damage and tho terror the pr I 1 of ruthless air warfare war faroL anticipated |