7 JULY 1917, Page 9

The battles for supremacy in the air were not on

so large a scale or so intense last month as in April or May, when 717 and 713 aeroplanes were put out of action, but the summary in Tuesday's Times shows that the superiority of the British airmen was quite as marked. The total for June, as recorded in the British, French, Belgian, and German daily communiques, was 392, of which 110 belonged to the Allies and 282 to the Germans. Of our machines, 78 failed to return to their bases ; but as a set-off 131 German aeroplanes were destroyed by our airmen and gunners, and 99 driven down out of control. The French accounted for 48 and the Belgians for four.