WAR IN THE AIR

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1918, Page 2

WAR IN THE AIR

[PEIt PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] AIR ACTIVITIES. LONDON, Juno 10. The “Echo do Paris” referring to tlio Anglo-French aerial activities destroying the enemy’s lines of communication, says that a single attack recently caused a hundred trucks of shells and numerous ammunition dumps to explode at the. railway station at Longnyon. A' single German chasing squadron lost in one night sixty airmen, ami practically all its machines. Cantonments full of troops, received as much as twenty explosives in two hours.

AVIATION OPERATIONS. LONDON, June 10. Sir Douglas Haig reports that nothing except reciprocal artilerying in the different sectors has taken place.

Our air squadrons, co-operating with the French worked on the Noyon-Mont-didier front on the 9th Juno continually from dawn to dusk, bombing aeroplanes impeded the enemy’s advance and harrassed tho troops and transport with constant machine-gun-ning. Strong patrols and scout machines swept the battlo area throughout the day. our high fliers protecting them. The targets hit, included an aerodrome near Royo, whero aeroplanes were set afire upon the ground, an ammunition dumps at Montdidier, which burst into flames, also teams of wagons and infantry in the trenches and the roads along and behind the whole fighting line. On the British front, one of our artillery aeroplanes forced a German twosen ter to land and surrender. Wo brought down fourteen others and drove down four uncontrollable. Four British airmen are missing.