BOMBING ENEMY AREAS.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 March 1918, Page 4

BOMBING ENEMY AREAS.

Tho 'remarkable differsnco in number of bombs dropped by aeroplanes of the respective sides during the daytime indicates that the British fighting ’planes are able to afford the bomb-carriers ample protection to permit them to carry out their tasks at a time when, though the risk of attack from enemy fighting ’planes is greater, #hc chances of securing effective results arc most favourable. This activity on the part of the British bombing machines is particularly satisfactory when it is remembered what a vital part communications and transport play in modern warfare. What ships are to Britain at the present time, trains arc to Germany. We read repeatedly in the official communiques that airmen have dropped bombs on a certain railway station or siding, or interfered with the enemy’s transport, but we do not always realise the serious effect upon tTie enemy s military organisation. The destruction of a big train on one side of-the main?' lines behind the enemy’s danger zone may mean the loss of hundreds of tons of munitions, or the destruction of hundreds of soldiers.