AVIATION OPERATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1918, Page 5

AVIATION OPERATIONS.

El-'rEcTIVF. U'OUK I'MI:!<'iJI:MLP. Received .March ::o 12.30 a.m. London, March 2!). Sir Douglas Ilai;, reports: In aviation ■ work large bodies of t.ur aeroplanes again, yesterday, carried out low-llying operation?-. ('ill' aeroplane•; dropped < vi-r 'thirty lons of bombs and liivd a quarter of a million rounds, indicting w-.'eve j cn-ualties, besides dclayinc; Ihe euemv bringing up troops noil ammunition. In jair lighting we downed twenty-four Germans, drove down seven uncontrolled, I ami destroyed two balloons. Nineteen of ours are missing, hut it is belie,ved some if them landed within our lines. Anti-aircraft gunfire accounted for the greater portion of our ca«uallies. We continued niyht bombing at Tinpauni", Bray, and I'evonm- with the utmost -. igor. We droppe-i over ;.. thousand tombs and fired thousands of rounds at good targets, which were plentiful and easily visible in the moonlight. Our pilots saw t"e bombs burst in'i it, the middle of column* "of troops, tnin^poris, and encampment I'our of our machines are missing We dropped over a ton of bombs on a balloon station at Met;;, on the 27th. Good bursts were F.ecn on sidings. \Ve successfully raided Luxemburg station on the 2Sth, dropping :twenty-one heavy bombs, there being several bursts upon objectives. All returned.