Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-08-31
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Official Figures Prove Allies
Are Superior In Air on
All Fronts.

LONDON, Aug. s1:-The allies are
putting out the Germans eyesi
At last this statement can be made
fatty.
Air Ministry covering more than 9
year prove 1t.
In the year from July, 1917, to
July. 1918, the British alone brought
down more than 1000 enemy air.
! planes. British machines missing for
the same period number only o
These figures include ALL the.
fronts on which the British airmen
are working
And the scora is FOUR TO ONEi
It may also be stated officially that
the figures since July 1, 1913, keep
up that score.
BY agreement the allies do not
make public each others air statis-
tics. But the British know what the
: other allies are doing, n 1t can be
stated officially hat the showing OF
the French, Italians and Americans
is equally convincing In that:
4. The allies on all fronts hold un-
! questioned aerial superiority over the
enemy.
2. The margin of superiority held
by all the allied air forces in all tnea-
, tres Is now greater than at any time
during the WA and is constantly and
rapidly increasingly
Air power is a fluid thing, and
therefore it cannot be said that at all
times the allies hold superiority in
each particular section. The Ger
mans by weakening one point can
concentrate and obtain a temporary
advantage at another point, as OF
course can the allies.
Total force is the real index, and in
total force the allies now have a
great and ever-increasing edge on the
huns.
British figures may be taken as a
fall index to how the war in the air
Is going, so glance at them in more
detail:
WESTERN FRONT, July, ,~17-July,
'18-British destroyed 2150 hun ma
chimes and drove 1883 down out OF
control. Germans drove down 1,O94
machines.
NAVAL IN NORTH, July, .17-July,
'18-British royal air force units
working in conjunction with royal
navy have shot down 623 machines.
Germans have accounted for 81 Bril-
fish machines working with the Bril-
fish navy.
ITALIAN FRONT, April-June, Is
have destroyed 165 German
machines and have driven down six
out of control. Germans accounted
for thirteen British machines.
SALONIKA FRONT, Jan.-Jpne, '1S
British destroyed twenty-ohe Ger
man machines and drove thirteen
down out of control. Germans &C
counted for -four British.
EGYPT AND PALESTINE, March,
June, '1s-British destroyed twenty
six German machines and drove If
teen down out of control. Germans
accounted for ten British planes.
Summarized further, in the north
(naval) and west front, the British
have accounted for 1856 in q year
and the British machines missing In
the same areas and period number
1,1s6.
While during the present year. in
the outside theatres GAG enemy ma
chimes have been accounted for, while
only twenty-seven British machines
are missing.
Here are some more encouraging
official facts:
From every possible Indication the
Germans have reached their maxi
mum strength in the air.
Leaving America out of IL, except
where American a%viators are now
working with allied units, the allies
superiority IN the air on all fronts is
greater than at any time during he
war, and while the Germans are in
all probability standing still or drop
ping slightly
The allied superiority and strength
Is increasing daily; and
The RATE Of increase is increasing
dailyi
SO that when America into
the air situation in strength the aerial
superiority of the forces fighting the
huns should go bouncing up at such
a rate as to give the allies tremend-
Gus advantages.