WAR IN THE AIR

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1918, Page 2

WAR IN THE AIR

AIR MINISTER’S REPORT. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] ROME, July 12. The Air .Ministry reports that on the night of the 11th, we successfully, bomb ed three aerodromes, causing two fires. _ v We bombed railway sidings at Saarling on the l2tli. All our machines returned, AIR RAIDS INTO GERMANY. , LONDON, July 12. A Press Bureau message states that the Independent Air Force dropped 61J tons of bombs during 7-i raids into Germany during June. A French communique reports that during June 150 enemy aeroplanes were brought down and over 600 tons of Itombs dropped. CONSTANTINOPLE BOMBED. LONDON, July 12. A Press Bureau reports states that the ; Air Force co-operating with the Navy, from the Rth, to the 10th, dropped eight tons of bombs on enemy docks and works, also half a ton on Constantinople on the 7th: Kuleliburgas bridge and station in Bulgaria, whereon a quarter of. a ton of bombs were dropped, are badly damaged. AIR OPERATIONS. ' ‘ A YEAR’S FIGURES. f AUSTRAL lAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION * REUTER.] (Received This Day at 11.15 a.m.) LONDON. July 13. Tho Press Bureau states for the year ending 30th June, on the West Front alone, the British destroyed 2,150 aircraft, and drove down 1,083. The Air Force, in conjunction with the Navy, shot down 623 in the same period. > There are 1.093 of ourg missing, also ninety-two working with the Navy. ■ From April to June on the Italian front the British destroyed 165 and drove down six. Thirteen British am missing. At Salonika, from January to June, we destroyed 21 and drove down 13, and four British are missing. From March to June, in Egypt and Palestine, we destroyed 20 and drove down 15.’ 10 British are missing.

The British, therefore, during the year brought down over 4,C00 aircraft, while our missing slightly exceeds 1000.