LOCAL RAIDS AND AIR ATTACKS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 210, 24 May 1918, Page 5

LOCAL RAIDS AND AIR ATTACKS

CARRYING THE WAR INTO GERMANY THE GREAT RAID ON COLOGNE Very little news indeed came through from .the Western front last niffht. Local actions and air raids are still tho main features of each day's operations. Tho reports of the big air raid on Cologne show that tho Royal Plying Corps is carrying the war into the enemy's country with . a vengeance. The raid in its results was a damaging one, damaging both to property and moral, and evoked a question in the Reichstag. The situation in Russia is unchanged. There is no lircad.in Pctrogrnd. A statement by tho Admiralty shows that less than half tho total tonnage of British, Allied, and neuiral shipping was sunk by tho enemy's operations last April than was sunk in April of last year. NO CHANGE IN THE WEST BATTLE TRANSFERRED TO THE AIR CEASELESS ATTACKS OVER THE GERMAN LINES By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Eec. May 23, 10.5 p.m.) „■ t, , „ . , imT London, Mav 22. Sir Douglas Haig reports: TVo repulsed a second attempt to raid our positions south-east of Mesrnl. We successfully raided tho enemy's lines in the neighbourhood of Hflbuterae, inflicting heavy casualties and taking prisonors."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn.-Reuter. * ON THE FRENCH FRONT (Eec. May 23, 7.15 p.m.) .„_,„.. . , London, May 22. A. French omcial communique states: "There was a violent artilldry bombardment in the region of Hikes, Rouvraj. and Plemrnt, and also «rcat patrol activity along tho entire Ailetto front."—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Asai.-Tteuter.. THE OVERHEAD WAR c- -n i Tr • • • , London, May 22. bir Douglas Haig, in a report on aviation, says :"Twenty-two tons of bombs were dropped during the day on Monday upon the enemy's railway stations aerodromes, and billets. Night-fliers dropped thirteen tons of borate on aerodromes in the neighbourhood of Ghent, Tournai, and St. Quentin, and a further four and a half tons upon the railway stations of Thionville, Motz, and Cob-Twenty-two heavy bombs were dropped on the railway stations of Namur and Chaneroi. Since the commencement of the German" offensivo a thousand Gorman aeroplanes have been brought down and over a thousand tons of bombs dropped over the enemy's line/"—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reutor