BRITISH AIR SERVICE.
LONITON, May 18. During a debate in the House of Com-mAns/on'-the efficiency of the British air service, Mr. Tennant, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office^ said that there had been a vast expansion of the air service, and it was untrue to ssy that the Germans held the lead. We were the winners of thfe great majority of the aerial contests at the front, and were doing infinitely more reconnaissance work than the (foe. We had. two types of aeroplanes faster than any of the German patterns, and two others equalling their fastest. •,'','
Mr. Boriar Law said that of 4/78 aerial eambats between British and German airmen 63 occurred over the Brit ? -r»h lines, 13 German maclr'nes being brought doWn, but no British.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 3
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