WAR IN THE AIR.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1918, Page 2

WAR IN THE AIR.

[PEII PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.]

AIR REPORT. ,

LONDON, July 5.

Sir Douglas Haig’s aviation report states: The. weather is cloudy and enemy activity slight. During the day ami last night We dropped sixteen tons of bombs on the railway junction at' Lille, at Courtrai, and elsewhere. All our machines returned.

AIR FIGHTING INTENSE

fAUSTRALIAN it N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

LONDON, July o. During the past week the air fighting has been intense and an abnormally high per centage of .German machines have been destroyed by. the British.

The increasingly menacing portent of the* British air raids over Germany whose large and more distant cities are now in constant fear of attaek, is occasioning a rapidly spreading anxiety and alarm throughout Germany. The now British independent fighting force is specially conspicuous by ts series of heavy and telling blows against tho big industrial centres in the Rhine* provinces.

Naval airmen are also vigorously carrying out daring offensives against vitaf onemy sea stations on the Belgian const STILL BOMBING. (AUSTOA LI AN A N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION it liEITTEB.I (Received This Dav, at 12.10. a.m.) LONDON, July 6. Tho Admiralty reports wo dropped fifteen and a half tons of bombs on Bruges lock gates, Zeebrugge sheds, and warehouses, on the quay at Ostend, and also on two aerodromes. Bursts of flames were observed in tho sheds, warehouses and hangars.