WAR IN THE AIR
GREAT WORK BY AIRMEN. INFLICT TERRIBLE LOSSES. LONDON March 29. ! French official message states that between the 22ml and 26th of March our airmen flying as low as 22 yards from the ground, dropped over 50,000 kilogrammes of bombs on convoys and marching columns and massed enemy troops. Wo also fllrnl thousands of machine-gun rounds. The enemy suffered terribly.
Sixty battle-planes and 20 bombingplanes on the 27th. inflicted terrible loses on the enemy massed infantry and blew up munition dumps, and caused great ffresl The bombing planes co-operated in attacking the railway stations at Metz, Albons and. Tliionville. .Several fires, and violent explosions were caused at Metz and Albons, «
The French Air Squadron on the night of the 23rd dropped 3-] tons of bombs on Radisehe and the Aniline factory at Ludwigsliafen, which Vis the principal poison gas factory in Germany,.
Forty-two enemy aeroplanes were brought down.
AIR SUCCESSES. LONDON, April 1
A record number of aeroplanes were brought down in March, the Allies claiming 828. and the Germans 221. The losses were mainly on- the West Front, where the. Allies downed 740. British airmen bagging 567 and losing 155.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1918, Page 1
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