WAR IN THE AIR

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16166, 21 March 1918, Page 7

WAR IN THE AIR

BRITISH RAIDS IN GERMANY. (By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Australian ind N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, March 19. British aircraft have raided Germany 255 times, losing a total of only ton planes. (Australian and N.Z. Cubic Association.) (Rocsived Mprcli 20th, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, March 19. In the House of Commons, Mr J- IMacPherson (Under-Secretary to tho "War Office) said that 153 flights had recently been carried out over Germany, and only 10 machines had been lost. Oyer a ton of bomhs had Cesn dropped on Mannheim and eight direct hits secured on large works on March 18th. Airmen had carried out 38 effectivo raids since October, dropping 48 tons of bombs. The Air Service was increasing the distance of its raids, in striking contrast to the enemy's air activity.

IN MESOPOTAMIA. AFTER KUT-EL-AM ARA. (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received March 20th, 11.25 p.m.) LONDON, March 19. In the House of Commons Mr J. Fitzalan Hope (Lord of the Treasury) stated that 3236 officers and men of the Kut garrison had not been heard of since General Townshend's surrender. The authorities state that they are practically certain that all tho men died during the hundreds of miles' march across tho desert, where no provision was made for food, shelter, or medical treatment. All the men were very iveak owing to the privations due to the siege, and many were suffering from dysentery. Doubtless they fell out on the march and died by the wayside. About one-fifth were British. All efforts to get information from the Turkish Government had failed.