WAR IN THE AIR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17861, 6 August 1918, Page 5

WAR IN THE AIR.

CAPTAIN BISHOP.

CANADIAN AVIATOR HONOURED. LONDON, August 3.

A feature of the gazette containing the awards to .Britisn and tho dominions' airmen, is the Distinguished laying Cross awarded to tn 0 Canadian, Captain Bishop. He had already received tho Victoria-Cross and several other awards tor destroying twentyiivo enemy machines in tweivo days, five in one day, making a total destroyed by him of seventy-two.

AVIATOR MISSING. PROMINENT BRITISH AIRMAN. LONDON, August 3. Major Maunock, credited with downing iifty enemy aeroplanes, is missing.

ALLIED AIR RAIDS

UNFAVOURABLE WEATHER,

A. and N.Z. Cable Association and Renter. LONDON, August 4.

The British aviation report states:~ The weather has interfered with air work. We dropped thirteen tons of bombs in tho daytime, three tons of which fell on Bruges Docks. Night ilying was impossible.