A SUNDAY MORNING RAID.
SEVERAL GROUPS OF 'PLANES. (Received 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, June 2. A French official message states that the alarm was given at 12.8 on Sunday morning. Several groups of enemy aeroplanes succeeded in reaching the Paris region, where they met with a lively cannonade by our batteries. Several bombs were dropped, and it is reported that a number of people were injured. The "all rlear" signal was given at 2.6 in the morning.— (A. and N.Z. and Renter.) PARIS, June 2. Eighteen persons were killed or wounded by the long-range shelling of the city on Corpus Christi Day. A Bhell Btruck a church.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) LONDON, June 2. The first gToup of raiders did not reach Paris, but a second group dropped bombs on the capital.— (A. and N.Z. and Renter.)
136 ENEMY 'PLANES DOWSED. (Received 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 2. An Italian semi-official report states: "During May the Italians downed 54 aeroplanes, and the liritish on the Italian front downed S2. English and Italians lost four."—(A. and N.Z. and Rcutcr.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 131, 3 June 1918, Page 6
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