THE AERIAL CONTEST
TROOPS SCATTERED BY BRITISH AEROPLANES
** (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION AND- *EUTEB.) ' . . ■ LONDON, 17th September. Sir Douglas Haig reports : The enemy's attempt to raid our lines south of Lombaertzyde were repulsed. Our artillery is active on the Ypres sector, but the enemy's lire is-less marked, except south of Lens and in the neighbourhood of Nieuport. The enemy's aeroplanes dropped fifty bombs behind our lines yesterday morning, but the damage done was slight. Our aeroplanes dropped 143 bombs on one of the enemy's aerodromes, and billets, and fired thousand* of rounds from their machine guns at various targets, scattering . two thousand
German infantry, from a height of one hundred feet. We brought down eleven of the enemy's machines. Eight of our machines are missing. (Received September 19, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 18th September. Sir Douglas Haig-reports : There have been only patrol encounters in the •Ypres sector.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1917, Page 7
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146THE AERIAL CONTEST Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1917, Page 7
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