MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

AERIAL ACTIVITY. BRITISH SUCCESSES.

London, June 6. The Admiralty reports that a naval aeroplane from Dunkirk attacked on Monday a German machine at sea and drove it down with a vertical nose dive. We successfully bombed the shipping at Bruges ,on Monday night. We obi served a and many smaller ones.' We again raided at daybreak ■with many tons of bombs. Four naval pilots patrolling from Dunkirk on Tuesday afternoon indecisively engaged eighteen German aircraft well out at sea off Ostend. They chased them to England, and while they wcri returning our naval machines from the British coast engaged them, driving down two. Our naval machines engaged the enemy over the Thameß estuary. Ten naval pilots from Dunkirk later, encountered sixteen returning from England. There were numerous fights off Ostend. We completely destroyed two and drove down four others uncontrollable, two of which we considered destroyed. i

GERMANS OBSERVE GOOD HITS. Received June 7, 55 p.m. , • London, June 0. A wireless German report states: Our aeroplane squadron dropped 5000 kilogrammes of bombs on military establishments at Sheerness, good hits being obiserved. OVER HALF RAIDERS DOWNED. Reuter Service. Received June' 7, 5.10 p.m. London, Juna 6. The Germain communiques do not include two enemy aeroplanes which are officially reported as having been downed yesterday, hence there were altogether four raiders completely destroyed and six driven down, thus more than half the raiding squadron was put out of action. THE TOTAL DAMAGE. A. & N.Z. Cable Association & 'Reuter. Received June 7, 5.5 p.m. London, June 0. Official: The total casualties in yesterday's air raid were 12 killed and 30 injured. The damage was not great. 4RMY POST OFFICE.

■ London, Juno 6. It was stated in the House of Commons that the Army Post Office emplovg over 4000 men, and dispatches weekly 9000 tags of parcels and 40,000 bags of letters, containing about 900,000 parcels and over 10,000,000 letters. It receives weekly 8,000,000 letters. BEWABE OP SUDDEN COLDS. < Banish them witji Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds. The ever-ready friend. Price, Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable everwhere. < DON'T POKGET. Coughs and Colds will be-prevalent the next 'few months. Their life will ha' ehort l^^g^^ES-CI^ACOOGH^-