LATE NEWS
THE WAR IN THE AIR RAIDS OVER THE FRONTIER (Rec. September 19, 2 a.m.) London, September 17i The Air Ministry reports: "On the afternoon of September 16 .wcvtwice attacked the aeroplaruvworks aiuFcJiemical factory at Mannheim, with excellent results. The enemy attacked us over our objective. Three British machines are missing. We attacked the German homo defence aerodrome at Hagenau. Bursts were observed on and near the . hangars,'one of which was set on lire. All our machines returned. On the night of September 16-17 we attacked three aerodromes with bombs and mach-ine-gun fire, with good results. We heavily attacked'tho railways,, at MctzSabloiis and Troves, starting three fires at Motz-Sablons. We dropped bombs all round Treves station, and also heavily attacked Frankfort station, with good eifect. The night began calm, but later high winds arose. At present seven British have not been loeuted. During tho past three days we dropped sixty tons of bombs. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assu.-Reuter. GREAT "ACTIVITY ON BELGIAN FRONT HEAVY GUNFIRE ON NIEWORT SECTOR. '• (Rec. September 19, 2 a.m.) London, September 18. \ Belgian coimmmiqiio states:— "There is great artillery activity and patrol lighting on the whole front, the -former being especially intense, towards Nieuport, . Boesinghe, and Morckem."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.Rcutor'. ON THE AMERICAN FRONT GUNS AND AIRMEN'ACTIVE. , (Rec. September 19,'2 a.m.) i London, September, 18. An American communique states:— "In the St. Mihiel sector, artillery mid aviation activity was continued. 'We captured prisoners in patrol encoun-ters."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. BATTLE ON ITALIAN FRONT, AN AUSTRIAN REPORT (Rec. September 19, 2 a.m.) London, September IS. •V wireless Austrian official report states: "Between the Brenta and Moitw Solarola the Italians yesterday morning opened an attack" after strong nrtillerv nro. Wo drove them back m the Brenta Valley and before Col Capnlc. Bitter fighting, developed at Mounts Pertica, Solarola, and tho lasso Ridge, iu which tho enemy was forced to retreat ovorywhere."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable AKii.-Reuter.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180919.2.35
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 310, 19 September 1918, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
312LATE NEWS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 310, 19 September 1918, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in