WAR IN THE AIR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17860, 5 August 1918, Page 5

WAR IN THE AIR.

NAVAL A !RMEN

WORK ON VARIOUS FRONTS

A. and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter,

(Received August 4, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 2. ffilio Admiralty reports:—Our Adriatic formation co-operated witli uie Italian air forces in the recent raids at Cafctaro and Durazzo and the land operations at Valona. We raided bridge* and stations on the Oriental railway, damaging tho line, rolling stock awl buildings In other raids we sank one. and damaged two caiques north oi imbros. We bombed a new aerodrome at Uzan Kufri, and twice raided Nagara and Galata on July 26-28. starting fires. We successfully bombed tho basin and dockyard at Constantinople, *&«"» reports state that fifteen tons oi bombs were dropped on Zecbrugge and Bruges docks and on Ostend. We also bombed enemy shipping in waters, directly hitting a destroyer with two thirty-pound bombs, causing columns of smoke to arise. Between July 2o and 31 we destroyed fifteen aeroplanes and shot down twelve out of control. Five British machines, one of which landed

in Holland, have not returned. A British seaplane was shot down in flames and two of her crew wero drowned.