Raiding Rhine Towns.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 4 July 1918, Page 3

Raiding Rhine Towns.

BRITAIN'S NEW STRIKING ARM. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE. Received tliis day, 11.25 a.m. London, July 3. The official report of the independent air force created for the purpose of invading enemy territory, states: Oil the night of July 1, we successfully attacked an aerodrome at Boulay. Bursts were observed in the aerodrome and hutments. We bombed with pood effect at the Oppau works of the Sodafabrik (for making- poison gas), also the railway line at Mannheim and the railway station at Treves on the 2nd, and also bombed the railway sidings and shed at Coblenz with good results. All our machines returned. BRITAIN'S SHIPBUILDING. Received this day, 11.40 a.m. London, July 3. The Admiralty announces that 134,159 tons of merchantmen were completed in the Ignited Kingdom in June compared with 197,274 fons in May. The total for the year ending- June 30 is 1,431,150. The Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding comments: "It is encouraging to note that, the tonnage of merchantmen completed in the United Kingdom for the quarter ending June -30 shows an increase of 78 per cent over the corresponding quarter of 1917." GREEK TRAITORS. Received this day, 11.40 a.m. London, July 3. The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent reports that M. Yenisselos has decided to ask the Allied Governments to hand over Colonel Metaxis, General Dousmanis and other deportees to the Greek army for courtfiiartial and punishment. GERMANS IN FINLAND. Received this day, 11.25 a.m. Copenhagen, Julv 3• The German ai'my in Finland is now at least 50,000 strong. The troops are concentrated on the Russian frontier. The* GermanFinnish army at. several points has crossed the frontier. . ITALIAN ENTERPRISE. Received this day, 11.25 a.m. Rome, July 3. The Government is cutting the canal connecting Lake Avernns with fhe sea and transforming the Lake into a vast dry dock.