IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 July 1918, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

CONSTANTINOPLE BOMBED. Received 9.10 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 28. Official. Six aeroplanes bombed the city on Tuesday. Five persons were wounded. BOMBING AUSTRIAN COASTAL TOWNS. Rceived 9.10 a.m. ROME, July 28. The Chief of the Naval Staff reports that Italian aeroplanes twice visited Durrazzo, and on the 22nd dropped over a ton of bombs on steamers and depots, causing fires. The British seaplanes, on the 25th re-attacked military works and harbours at Cattaro, importantly damaging especially the aeroplane and submarine base. Italian seaplanes on the 26th successfully bombed Lagosta, causing large fires. AIR RAIDS INTO GERMANY. FOURTEEN IN ONE WEEK. LONDON, July 14. This week's fighting in the air has been remarkably successful. The record includes 114 separate British raids into Germany, with a loss of two aeropLanes, against four of the enemy machines, which were brought down despite the new and formidable enemy squadrons told off to reinforce the anti-air raid defences of the German cities.

These raids arc increasingly hampering the German power for offensive manoeuvre, owing to the serious damage inflicted on the muntion factories and to the network .of railways from Rhine to the west front..

Germany is also, forced to divert an ever-increasing amount of trained man-power and materials to defend the Rhineland, where the interruption of war work is becoming an increasingly serious problem. Forty-eight tons of bombs were dropped in Germany during May, and 61 tons in June. BRITAIN'S AERIAL SUPREMACY THE YEAR'S GREAT RECORD. LONDON, July 27. Major-General Brancker, British Air Controller of equipment, announced at a luncheon here that the British destroyed 4900 enemy airplanes in the last twelve months, losing 1217. British supremacy was- growing daily. Lord Weir has appealed to the United States to send every air motor possible. A TREAT IN STORE FOR ENEMY. NEW YORK, July 27. Lord Weir, in his appeal to the United States to rush airplane motors to Britain, said: "Send the Royal Flying Corps every motor you can, "Especially during the next three months. We will instal them in 'planes, In which our plots will give the enemy a foretaste of what they may expect in steadliy increasing volume." SEAMAN'S LONG BOYCOTT. Five years and eight months is the present length of the British seamen's boycott against Germany, calculated at the rate of a month for every fresh crime since last year. The position was stated by Mr Havelock Wilson at a recent meeting at the Albert Hall, and the seamen's' president added that two months had been put on for the bombardment of a hospital base. The 250,000 men in the shipping industrywere determined, he said, not to talcrate any German on a British ship, and wore unanimously agreed that they would not take p. ship to any Germans port so lo:?'-; :.r, the boycott Ir.sted.