LOSSES IN THE AIR.
FALSE GERMAN FIGURES. Reutir't TfUgramt. (Received July 12,12.55 p.m.) LONDON, July 11. The figures given in the German communique as to the air losses for the month of June are entirely false. On the British front alone 131 German machines were destroyed and ( J'J others driven down uncontrollable. The French accounted for 45, and the Belgians for four. No record was kept of the number of French machines brought down, but as the number of British machines oiticiallv reported lost was 78, and as the heaviest fighting was on the British front, it is obvious that the German figure of the Allied losses being 220 is absurd. (The message giving the German claims eppcars on page B.J
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 12 July 1917, Page 11
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121LOSSES IN THE AIR. Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 12 July 1917, Page 11
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