LONG-DISTANCE AIR RAIDS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 22, 25 July 1918, Page 7

LONG-DISTANCE AIR RAIDS

BRITISH OFFICIAL REPORTS.

(AUS. AND N.Z. CADI.H ASSN. AND REUTER.)

LONDON, 23rd July. Sir Douglas Ilaig reports : The weather improved on 22nd July, and several long-distance reconnaissances were made. Twenty-three tons of bombs were dropped on the railway stations at Cambrai, Bray, and Lille, on ammunition dumps near Armentieres and Bapaume, and on billets along the whole front. Twentythree hostile machines were brought down, and three were driven down out of control. , Ten British aeroplanes are missing. Rain prevented night-flying. The Air Ministry reports: Our aero-

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planes on the afternoon oF 22nd July hit the main station at Offenburg. Bursts were seen on the sidings. One hostile machine was destroyed. . All our machines returned. We repeatedly attacked the enemy's aerodromes on the night, of 22nd July, with goud results. Fires and explosions were observed. We bombed and machine-gunned other targets.