Show air force figures worry to britain london british aeronautical an thorl thorit ties les are much concerned over great BrIt britain aIns s increasingly inferior position of its air corps as revealed by armament statistics which most of the nations have submitted to the league of nations for consideration A study of these statistics shows that great britain Is now fifth in nu mercial air strength and Is rapidly being overhauled even by jugo slavia statistics submitted to the league by the various nations show their relative strength in first line aircraft and their total strength with all reserves as tol fol lows first total line with all aircraft reserves france 1687 3 great britain 1434 italy 1507 poland czechoslovakia spain jugo tugo slavia rumania 9 U S ot of america 1762 1752 23 2351 japan 1384 1939 it Is believed however that gi gleat eat britain s numerical inferiority Is con sider ably offset by the exceptionally high standard of her air force per bonnel and the superiority of her types of pursuit planes to those of most of the other nations |