THE WAR IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 9 November 1916, Page 3

THE WAR IN THE AIR.

"It is scarcely probable that the enemy air service would be particularly pleased if it knew just what a soldier of the 125th Regiment, captured in Delville Wood, had written about it in his diary," says Reuter's correspondent. He says: "During the day one hardly dares to be seen in the trench, owing to the English aeroplanes. They fly so low that it is a wonder they do not pull one out of the trench. Nothing is to be.seen of our hero German airmen, and yet the brilliant ratio is said to be 21 to 89. The fact that the English are a thousand times more daring was, however, not mentioned. One can hardly calculate how much additional loss of life and strain on the nerves this costs us. I often feel doubtful regarding the issue of our good cause when such bad fighters are Uierc to champion it."