WAR IN THE AIR.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13927, 9 July 1917, Page 2

WAR IN THE AIR.

CANADA'S GREAT RECORD,

VALOL'I! IX THE AIR.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association OTTAWA, July (i.

Pir 'Uobri't Borden, Prime Minister of [lie Dominion of Canada, congralulaU''l ..r'liglil-Lieiiteiiant W. A. Bishop, a Canadian, 'aged nineleen, who lias been awarded the Victoria Cross, the D.5.0., and the Mililary Cross. He has. fought in fifty seven victorious air bailies, exceeding Hit record of Flight-Lieutenant Ball, the British air hero,

[Plight-Lieutenant Bishop, on one occasion, single-handed, fought an entire aerodrome of German airmen, destroyed.four machines and returned un ; hurt though his machine was riddled with bullets. His "bag" to date is twenty-one aeroplanes and two balloons.

FRENCH INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES. NINETEEN BROUGHT DOWN IN NINE DAYS. (Australian and Reuler.) Received July 8, 5.5 p.m. LONDOIx. July 7. A French communique says: From file 21st to 31st June, our chasing planes biought down nineteen enemy aeroplanes, additionally to the fourteen enemy machines, seriously damaged, which fell in their own lines.