BRITISH BOMBING RAIDS.
LONDON, May 30.'
Sir Douglas Haig's aviation report states:—Low.cloudy and poor visibility proven ted much flying on May 29 until late in the day, when the weather cleared. We brought down five German, machines and drove down one other oiit of control. No British machines" were lost. Our aviators dropped fire tons of bombs during the daytime
-n clumps and billets in the neighbourhoods of Armentieres and Bapauihe, and also heavily-bombed on the night of May 28 the railway triangle at Metz-Sablons'. One .British machine did not return. Our night-fliers dropped 16 tons of bombs on the night of May 29 on railway stations at Valenciennes and .Husiyny, and also on the Bruges docks. All our machines returned.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9309, 1 June 1918, Page 6
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