AERIAL WARFARE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1918, Page 6

AERIAL WARFARE.

SUCCESSFUL RAIDS., POWDER FACTORY DESTROYED. LONDON, July 21. The Air Ministry reports that on the night of the ,18th we bombed Benz and works at Mauheim, railway , station;; at Heiclelbr.rg, blast furnaces ; at Burbach and Yvaclgoassen, also o.n | aerodrome and two trains tfer© hit ' and brought to a. standstill and then machine-gunned. We attacked a powder factory at Oberndorf and.a burst was observed on the buildings. ZEPPELIN DESTROYED. , AMSTERDAM, July 21. } A burning Zeppelin fell near Redrelheim. AERIAL ACTIVITY. A BRITISH REPORT. LONDON, July 21. , Sir Douglas Haig states that tuere is nothing to report. * Our aeroplanes on the 20th dropped'; eighteen tons of bombs on Courtrai and Lille railways, Bruges docks, three large dumps and billets. Tnere" ' has been more air fighting. . We brought "tfown fourteen aeroplanes, and drove down three uncontrollable and destroyed three balloons. Seven British are missing. An Air Ministry report states that photographs show extensive damage in the . hostile aerodrome at Morhange, the result of the attack on the night of the 19th. One large shed and three hangars were destroyed. A British-Italian official message says that we carried out three raids westward of Asiago, taking prisoner and destroying seventeen aircraft since the 15th.