THE AIRMEN'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1918, Page 6

THE AIRMEN'S PART.

m THE FLANDERS FIGHTING. London, Oct. 6. A detailed account of the airmen's part in the Flanders offensive, beginning on September 28, shows that 100 machines started at daybreak in trick weather. All flew low. One pilot, at a height of 200 feet, put out of action a battery at Staden. Another, at a height of 100 feet, wrecked a train at Thourout and machine-gunned the troops who emerged. Altogether three trains were ignited and four others hit. Other machines, near Mercken, found a transport column a mile long. Eighteen bombs wrought havoc, barricading the road with wrecked lorries and dead and dying men and horses. The work continued at night. A number of Belgian divisions on October 1 were unable to draw supplies because the sroads were impassable. Eighty aeroplanes dropped 10,000 rations.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. A Belgian communique, dated October 9, 12.25 a.m., says: The enemy at nighttime violently bombarded our front line in the outskirts of Roulers, and in the daytime bombarded Xieuport, Clercken and also the back area. Enemy aeroplanes were most active and machinegunned our front lines at Moorelede and Passchendaele. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.