WAR IN THE AIR.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13995, 27 January 1916, Page 5

WAR IN THE AIR.

THE KENTISH RAID

' BRITISH AIRMEN'S WORtK "IN

PRANCE.

London, Jan. 25,

Mr. H.-.J. Tennant, Under-Secretary for War, speaking in the House of Commons, said that four military aeroplanes pursued the Kentish raiders, who were too far distant to be overtaken.

He added that during the past four weeks thirteen British aeroplanes were lost on the Western front, and nine or eleven German aeroplanes. We used 128 machines in our raids, while the enemy used 20. The number of our aeroplanes crossing the enemy lines was 1227, against 310 of the enemy crossing ours. All the aircraft fights occurred over, or behind the enemy lines. Owing to the westerly wind the Germans when hit planed down, while ours could not. Therefore it was impossible to give a correct comparison of the actual losses.