IN THE AIR.
AVIATION ACTIVITY. MOST SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS. Received July 3, 12.50 a.m. London, July 2. Sir Douglas Haig's aviation report states: We had a most successful day on June SO. We shot down twenty-five aeroplanes and drove down ten uncontrollable. A large number of reconnaissances enabled the artillery to engage a greater number of hostile batteries
than on any day for the past fortnight. We dropped twenty-nine and a half tons of bombs during the day, and seventeen tons at night. Of the latter, seven tons fell with good effect on railway connections at Tournai. Two of our machines are missing.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter.
RAID ON" PARIS. Received July 3, 1 a.m. Vancouver, July 1. Aeropkiies raided Paris. ■PARIS SUBURBS BOMBED. Paris, July 1. An official alarm was sounded at 11.55 last night, and tha "all clear" at 12.20. Fire was opened on the approaching aeroplanes, which did not reach Paris.
There was a second alarm at 12.48 and bombs were dropped in the outer suburbs. The "all clear" went at 2.20. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1918, Page 5
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