AIR ACES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 5

AIR ACES

4 KAIN AT PRESENT LEADING. FRIENDLY FRENCH RIVAL. LONDON, March 31. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that a score board of British and French pilots' successes is being carefully kept. The New Zealander Flying Officer Kain is leading at present with five certainties, but a friendly French rival whose name so far has not yet been revealed is expected to receive credit shortly for his fifth enemy plane. A sergeant pilot at present heads the French list with three official victories.

Flying-Officer Edgar Kain's relatives in Wellington are naturally watching his thrilling career with the keenest ol interest. In a recent letter the airman, writing on February 11, said there was very little doing at the time of writing. He. mentioned that a few days previously 8.8. C. representatives visited his post and took a recorded description of one of his flights on patrol. He afterward, gave an account of two “scraps,” which was also to be broadcast.

“Life tends to get very boring out here with all this inactivity.” the airman wrote, "but I expect when the weather improves things will begin to buck up.”