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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.

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