THE AERIAL WAR

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 41, 16 August 1918, Page 7

THE AERIAL WAR

GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS

HELD UP

ENEMY FORCED TO ORGANISE NEW SCOUT FORMATIONS.

CADS. AND N.Z. CABLE AB9N. AND REnTBR.)

LONDON, 14-15 th August, Midnight.

Sir Douglas Haig reports'. Our con- ' tinuous bombing, by day and njght, of the Somme bridges, railway lines, and railway junctions since the beginning of the offensive has-held up the enemy's reinforcements,\ and hae also forced him to employ large formations of air scouts in an effort to protect his vital communications, but our concentration of machines has effeotivsly dealt with all opposition. We dropped twenty-one tons of bombs during the day, and thirty-seven tons at nigjht above various objectives. The British and Americans raided an aerodrome at a low height, destroyed six machines, and flred the hangars..* We brought down twenty-one machines and drove down ten out of control. Six British machines are missing. I (Received August 16, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 15th August. ! A French communique states : Our night-bombers dropped thirty-two tons .of bombs on various objectives, including fifteen on Ham and Noyon, where big fires were observed.