16 MARCH 1918, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
BY far the most striking military events of the past week, as indeed of the preceding fortnight, have been the successes of the Allied airmen. The disproportion between our own losses and those of the enemy has become most remarkable, and is in- variably in our favour. An officer at the front had some reason for saying that the last ten days' work in the air had been better than anything yet accomplished by the Allies in the war. Of course, the loss of, say, a hundred German aeroplanes while the Allies lose only ten is not going to end the war. Nevertheless our successes embody a fact which is of the utmost significance, and may point to the true way of ending the war. Complete supremacy in the air may tilt the heavy balance.
