ALLIED AIR SUCCESSES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 118, 19 May 1916, Page 3

ALLIED AIR SUCCESSES.

Regarding :iie fiuoey-wos ■ i* the Allied airmen during April, it is interesting to turn to fcome remarks mad.- by Mr Hilaire Belloc on vis j«tu/Ji to London after visiting the French i'rr.nt just recently. " Dv: ccnKd'ilius sciirenK.rrgering about the. Fokker machino is new dead,' lie said 'but the following points may be of service. The Fokte* is simply a French Mov-ine machine. It existed as a Morasc mac in e in Germany long before the war. Tin German r. •] y of the Morane niajli' ie was nor a r. ugh copy, but an ex-vt eopy, clown te rh«. smallest details, and down to measurements of a mUiiiiut'e f.>r nearly all its parts. There is 30.ne difference in tie angle and curvature of to wings There is the vepl-i?. rmouc e 'o-vvvhere 'f wood by metal, -av" in t.he b-unrns of the wings. It js sliglitlf more e mpii cated in its upp uVus of nliyhi'-' g (though pros>"''vig iho charpct.-i'ist n'M'), and there is a lilt--? difference in the rudder. Whib> upon this subject we may note til? eomcf/- n of a false German eommnni.ju which I "h'uk haw not been noted in ih:s country. Th-s communique apoeawu on Ja •.nary L>th. and stated tha?- stacli-Ji* f ■•< m October Ist, 1915, the Ornvms had lost up U that date (Janniry 9.Bth} ]( ; a-roplanes, and the Allies '•' : >. The- >-tatomert is simply a falsehood. The true figures for the period we.o 13 linglifh losses and 17 French, niafcji.? a t< t»v! of ?\\ The ascertained G-mumi less.es in the same period front and 20 3B the French front, making a total of •«! ''