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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 229, 15 June 1918, Page 7

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IMPORTANT ADVANCE IN THE I BALKANS

ALLIES CAPTURE ELEVEN • 1 VILLAGES i ADVANCE OF NINE-' MILES N \ (liec. Juno 15, 1.30 a.m.) ' London, Juno 14. | A l-'rench Eastern communique states: •; "The operations on Mounts Kamia and j Lcniii hiire been successful. Wo advane- ; ed on Ihe summit of ■Coralop to the ; source of the Skumbi, and also on Mount ! Kukri, and penetrated into Linaprento, On the left we hold Qo'p'es. Our advance ! is 0 mile.'i deep on a.front nf 8 miles. We ! i captured eleven villages, considerable .1 booty, /ind took over 300 prisoners." - j Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reutor. I AIR WAR IN THE WEST j BAD DAY FOR THE ENEMY j (Bee. June 15, ,1.30 a.m.) . . . j . London, Juno U. j Sir Douglas Haig's • aviation report ; states: "Our squadrons on tho French front destroyed iifteen enemy aeroplanes. Some fell in flames, others broke in the i air. One British 'plane is missing. On i the British front we destroyed five. Ger- ; j man machines and drove down two out j lof control. Two British,'planes are. miss- : ing. We dropped twenty-two fcons_ of I bombs during the daytime on various I targets, including Laon junction, and 1 alto on the railways at Courtriii, Arnieu- j tieies, Chaulnes, a dump at Bsipaiunn, and tho docks at ] Bruges. Many heavy boiufcs were .drop- \ ped on , Metz-Sablons ):aU\vay station. .. • During two successful raids on the af- ; ternoon of June l!i, another squadron j dropped a ton of bombs on a factory and ' stations at DiUingen. Simultaneously ; the factories and station at Hngendangen | were subjected to nil attack. Direct hits ; were observed on two furnaces at Dil- : lingen. The enemy's aircraft attacked j our bomlxM's. One German aeroplane j was destroyed and two were driven down. : • One British 'plane is missing. ' ! French Raids, ; French "bonibmg ''squadrons yesterday . j dropped sixteen tons bf projectiles in ; Ihe battle zone and twenty-nVe tons '.'■ during the night of June 12-13 on canton- j nients, convoys, marching troops, and j the enemy in the rear. They bombed j also the villages of Bicqeboulg, Ressous- 1 sur-Matz, Orvilles,. Sorel, and tfte re- : 'gious of-Boyo aud. Guignicourt.' Several i fires were observed. Sixteen enemy j aeroplanes were felled or disabled. Tliir- I teen enemy machines were felled by gun-. ■ fire , during the. first, week in June."— ; Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Beutcr. . , ■ ." i