World War: IN THE AIR: Scores

Last week, the104th of World War II, scattered points of the British Empire issued encouraging aerial statistics to King George VI’s half-billion scattered subjects, their allies, other well-wishers.

> In London air officials tallied a two-year bag of 7,170 Axis aircraft, exclusive of victories by their allies, counteracted rumors that ack-ack has bark but no bite by claiming 1,350 of these as anti-aircraft victims in France, Britain, the Middle East.

> Air officials also asserted that the four weeks ending Aug. 17 brought fewer than 300 Nazi bombers across the British coast —fewer than the R.A.F. bomber force which flew over the Continent on the night of Aug. 14.

> In Canada, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan graduated its 20,000th ground-crew technician.

> On the Middle Eastern Front, where besieged Anzac troops in Tobruk continue to weather an average of ten air raids a day, Royal Australian Air Force pilots were credited with downing eleven enemy planes for every loss to themselves.