IMPORTANCE OF THEIR OPERATION.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2972, 21 June 1916, Page 2

IMPORTANCE OF THEIR OPERATION.

[VER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] [BY "KLECTRIC TKLHGRAPH —COPYP.IGHT]

(Received Junt 21, 9 a.m.)

Paris, June 20. The official review of operations ou the West front referring to Sir Douglas Haig's summary of events during the- last five weeks, says that bis discreet statement fails to reveal the unceasing activity of the British. Ho has not stated that the new British sector is one of file two requiring the most vigilant watchfulness and the hardest efforts daily, consuming large numbers of men and shells. It is impossible to estimate the value of the untiring, methodical efforts- to which each succeeding: period strikes a imore progrus&ive blow. —Times — Sun. London, June 20. Sir Douglas Haig reports that there were 27 aerial combats on Sunday. Five enemy machines were downed and two of our machines. (Received June 21, 11.30 a.m.) Amsterdam, June 20. lit an undated interview, Captain Boelke, the famous German aviator. •said that he regarded the British airmen as brave and tenacious sportsmen. The fact that so many of them were brought down in the German lines did not prove their unskilfulness, but their ,in frigidity.