In the Air.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 75, 4 March 1916, Page 5

In the Air.

'FRENCH SQUADRON'S SUCCESSi FUL Al RRAID. [United Press Association.] Paris. March 2. A French air squadron dropped forty-four bombs and greatly damaged the Chambley station. Aeroplanes also dropped forty bombs on Bensdorff station and nine projectiles on an enemy establishment at Avereourt. BRITISH BIPLANERS PRISONERED. I i ' I London. March 2. A German communique says: We forced a British biplane to descend and took the occupants prisoner. We J brought down two French-biplanes at iSoissons. AIRMEN BUSY IN FLANDERS. London. March 2. Sir Douglas Haig reports twenty air encounters yesterday. One of our machines did not return. Our infantry and machine-guns dispersed . a party of the enemy who attempted to advance in the night-time under 'cover of a bombardment. The north zone is quiet to-day. but there is considerable artillery activity at Y.pres. I CONCENTRATION ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT. ! ' London, March 2. Petrograd reports a great concentration of German aire raft r.n the Russian front.. Large quantities of bombs and projectiles are being stored and new hospitals established, and there in every indication of an intended offensive. Officers have told the soldiers that the fleet of aircraft intends to make a great effort during the next few months, and the army must do the same.