OUR "IMPORTUNATE" AIRMEN.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 July 1918, Page 3

OUR "IMPORTUNATE" AIRMEN.

Under the heading "The Guard Across the Avre," the correspondent' of the Frankfurter Zeitung on the Western front concludes as follows an impressionist account of the forced marches that brought Hutier's army into the line two months ago:—That 'was the advance. But this advance' we knew already from 1914. [We knew it in the east. But what we do not know in the east is the enemy airmen. With every kilometre forward they become more importunate. They are not reconnoitring, they a re attacking. They come in whole squadrons; too bombs whine through the air and burst; the machine guns spray up and down the crowded roads; and the columns axe without any cover beyond only the roadside ditch. The plaguey fellows are driven off, but they are soon back again, with new bombs and fresh ammunition. Our chasing echelons cannot be everywhere at once. And so it goes on day and night. No quiet hour, no sheltering billet.