BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 17 June 1915, Page 7

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

THE BRITISH AIR SERVICE

LARGE INCREASES.

WAR MATERIAL SMUGGLED THROUGH ROUMANIA.

FURTHER SEIZURES MADE

»V OA3LB— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received June 17, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, June 16. The Press Bureau corrects the story Utftt a German airship was brought down att Noroy-sm-Aurcq. It was an aeroplane. Mr Tennant, in ihe Bouse of Commons, said it was luipossibJs to speak in detail of the air 'service, btlv the number of machines had been increaseo! "tenfold and the men fivefold. There ~• were now eleven school for training pilots, accommodating two hundred students. There had been no shortage of high explosive bombs since February, and the supply and reserve was 3i4fv ample.. The W"ar Office contemplated, building, a super-aeroplane similar .to the Russiaiu v BUCHAREST, June 16> . The Roumanian authorities' stopped another train of twenty t trucks wnich was proceeding to Turkey*. The trucks had double frameworks, of which the spaces were filled with shells. All were confiscated. So-called German and Austrian couriers are daily passing towards Turkey. They invariaibly have large quantities of luggage, md cases of supposed Red Cross material. Many were / Found to contain war material and apparatus for poisonous gases.