IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 October 1917, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

HUGE AERIAL FLEETS. NEW YORK, October 25. Military authorities are expecting aerial warfare on a huge scale next year., By July thousands will go out together. The United States programme will be completed in the early summer, when 22,500 aeroplanes will be ready An additional programme will follow. BRITISH RAID GERMANY. AEROPLANE SQUADRONS DO FINE WORK. LONDON, October 26. Our aeroplane squadrons last night attacked factories and railway communications in the vicinity of Saarbruc ken, with excellent results. Naval machines dropped over 3* tons of explosives on Burbach works, westward of Saarbrucken, causing considerable damage and many fires. Another squadron bombed railway stations-, junctions and goods sidings round about Saarbrucken, securing many direct hits and numerous explosions . A big bomb destroyed a train proceeding to Saarbruck. A total of five tons was dropped.

(Saarbrucken is a town of Ehenish Prussia, 40 miles south-east of Treves.)