WAR IN THE AIR
ALLIED AIRMEN. r AUSTRALIAN * N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. I ' & REUTER.] | PARIS March 1. An expert commentator states that between December 1, and February 15, Allied airmen in the West carried out 22,518 fights, .104 enemy planes were downed, and 93 nut. out of control. They took 21,300 photographs, and dropped 192 tons of explosives with remarkable success. • ANOTHER RAID ON VENICE. THREE CHURCHES DESTROYED LONDON March 2. Mr ‘Ward Price says the forty-fifth air raid on Venice lasted eight hours Three hundred bombs were dropped, and thirty-eight, houses and tbchurches wero destroyed. In one the famous Bellini altar and landscape were wrecked. Gotha s repeatedly replenished with bombs, close to th© c-ity, were droning backwards and forwards all night.
POLA BOMBED. LONDON March 1. An Italian communique says:—A squadron of our seaplanes flew over Pola on the night of February '27th, anil dropped two tons of explosives on the arsenal and other military works causing large fires. - They returned undamaged. NANCY BOMBED. PARIS March 2. Seventeen German aeroplanes bombed Nancy with much damage and several fires. Ten were killed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1918, Page 3
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