AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 3 August 1918, Page 5

AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

EFFECTIVENESS OF ALLIED WORK

ADMITTED BY GERMAN PEESS

T , TJ „ LONDON, Aug. 1. Ine Tress Bureau points out the significance of the admission by German journalists of th© effectiveness of the Allied air work. The Cologne Gazette says: The unprecedented employment of the enemy aerial forces is particularly embarrassing to our communications. The Marne bridgeheads are frequently destroyed by Allied aviators, and must be rebuilt under the most difficult conditions: Iho Strassburg Post says: Th c enemy profits with the greatest obstinacy by every advantage in tlio field. During the battle he employed heavy artillery i and aerial torces, not, only to bring xfs to a half, but to push us back and snatcli our guns. The Press Bureau comments that this is particularly pleasing, in view of the fact that the American air force is stated to be as large as the whole pre-war American army and that th c Royal \ir loree personnel has been multiplied two hundred times and is constantly increasing.

Sir Douglas Haig's aviation report states: There was hea\ T fighting on July 31. V>e brought down 26 aeroplanes and drove down nine uncontrollable, lour British machines have not returned. We dropped fifteen tons of explosives with good effect. We dropped at night over 23 tons, heavily damaging several railways, ipiehidiin^those at Canihrni and Lille. There were many direct hits,, causing a number of large fires. TSrif !sh Italian official: Our aeroplanes in July destroyed sixty-six machines and drove down three 'uncontrollable i Four British failed to return —\us - X.Z. C.A. and lieu tor.