ENEMY'S BACK AREAS CONTINUOUSLY BOMBED

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 195, 16 August 1918, Page 5

ENEMY'S BACK AREAS CONTINUOUSLY BOMBED

NINETY-SIX RAIDS INTO GERMANY IN JULY. LONDON, August 15. Sir Douglas Haig's aviation report states:—Our continuous bombing by day and night of the Somme bridges, railway lines, and railway junctions, since the beginning of the offensive, has held up the enemy's reinforcements and also forced him to employ large formations of scouts in the effort to protect his vital communications, but our concentrations of machines have effectively dealt with all opposition. .Ye dropped 21 tons of bombs by day and 37 tons by night above various objectives. British and American aviators made raids on aerodromes at a low altitude, destroyed . ix machines, and set fire to the hangars. We brought down 21 machines and drove down 10 out of control. Six British are missing. The Press Bureau states:—During duly the Independent Air Force made 100 raids, of which 96 were into Germany, and dropped SI tons of bombs on important military objectives, despite periods of bad weather. This constitutes a record, both in the number of raids and the weight of bomb?. —(A. and N.Z. and Reuter.)