WORK OF THE FRENCH BOMBING SQUADRONS
(Rec. September 1, 5.5 p.m.) Now York, August 31. The "New York limes" Washington correspondent states that official dispatches from Paris say that in tho first two weeks of August French bombing 'planes' dropped 90 tons of projectiles in the daytime and 216 tons at wight on the West front. Five enemy aeroplanes were brought down oier the French lines. Six wero brought clown by anti-aircraft guns. Fortyseven enemy machines wero brought down over their own- linos, and 93 were disabled. Six German balloons «eris set on firo. The French losses were less than one-third of tho enemy's. American aviators in tho same period brought down at least twenty enemy aeroplanes."~Aus,-N.Z,i Cable Assn. TWENTY ENEMY AEROPLANES BROUGHT DOWN. (Rec, September 1, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 81. A French official communique states:—"Our aviators on August 29 dropped 48 tons of bombs, and also.brought down 20 enomy.aeroplanes."—Aua.N,Z. Cable Assn.-Reutor.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 295, 2 September 1918, Page 5
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153WORK OF THE FRENCH BOMBING SQUADRONS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 295, 2 September 1918, Page 5
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