BRITISH SUPREMACY IN GUNS AND AIRCRAFT.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 10 May 1917, Page 1

BRITISH SUPREMACY IN GUNS AND AIRCRAFT.

COLONEL REPINGTON IMPRESSED

GERMANS'TREATED TO THEIR

OWN GAS,

("The Times.")

London, May 8

Colonel Kepington. is greatly impressed with the British, artillery and aerial superiority. He says Hindenburg proposed to double his guns last winter, but there are no signs that ho did so. The enemy are often no better than a passive resister. We have abundant gas, and have released the clouds which the enemy so dread to suffer from. They must have cu.rsed the day when they first decided to use it. ■: . . ,-. ■ ■. ■

Although the Germans, with swarms of j;he new type'of battle-plane, made' great efforts to suppress bur airmen, .the ■latter, though having an; tiricom-. monly warm time,. took the offensive and drove back the Germans.

It is foolish to criticise the types of machines, because every type is wanted. We would have few birds of the air ifwe stuck to one type. The latest type equals Germany's best, but greater quantity and a constant succession of new types are wanted, because an aeroplane's fighting life is only two months1. An airman rarely lasts longer than nine months, owing to the greatness of the strain.