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BRITISH EMPIRE AT WAR
innumerable stations fitted with special guns and powerful searchlights, and night-flying machines, these raiders can no longer visit this country with impunity. The British have totally destroyed eight Zeppelins and damaged others.
With regard to heavier-than-air craft, Great Britain in the earlier periods of the war gained a supremacy over the enemy which has been maintained. Evidence bears out the statement that comparatively few enemy aeroplanes are now over the British lines, whilst British pilots are constantly over the enemy lines, which results in effective artillery work.
The Air Services are particularly attractive to the youth of Great
