BRITISH AIR RAIDS ON GERMANY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 67, 18 March 1916, Page 6

BRITISH AIR RAIDS ON GERMANY.

IMPORTANT TOWNS BOMBED. B'UILDLNGS DESTROYED. RAILWAY STATION ALSO BOMBED. (Reed. 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. Sir Douglas Haig reports: We carried out a small raid south of Verlorenhoek with satisfactory results. Experts in the inventions department of the Ministry of munitions examined the aeroplane engines of Werry (Victorian) and are considering their adoption. , GERMAN REPORT OF BRITISH RAIDS. IMPORTANT IRONFOTJNDRIES ATTACKED. SIX SHEDS AT ESSEN DESTROYED AMSTERDAM, March., 16. Allied airmen received gunfire at [Munchengeadhach, where there are important iron foundries. Thereupon they flew to Essen and 'also bombed the railway station. The Telegraf reports that . Allied aviators flew over Essen, Munich, and Gladbach, near Dusseldorf. Six sheds at Essen were destroyed. ITALIAN OFFENSIVE'S VALUE. 50,000 AUSTRIANS KEPT FROM VERDUN. ROME, March 15. Owing to the Italian offensive, 50,000 Austrian s who were about to reinforce the Germans at Verdun, were stopped at Innsburck. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. SYDNEY, March 15. The passengers by the Makura include Mr. G. H. Pritchard, representing the Sugar Producers' Association. He is proceeding to England to attend a conference with the object of ousting the German sugar trade. Mr. Pritchard states that the Dominions can easily supply the sugar needs of the whole Empire. 1 ■ AT NEUVE CHAPELLE.- '- I " " "" ■ - ■'■;•: •-'-' I AMSTERDAM, 'M'Arcjh ;15 t : ' A Berlin communique says: [We Mow up advanced British positions at 1 -Neuve ■Chape'le. ' : " -—>' ; "