THE ALLIES' AIR OFFENSIVE.
BRITISH RAIDS. Australian-Now Zealand Cable Association LONDON, Oct. 18. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—British aeroplanes carried out a very successful raid on German territory. They attacked a factory westward of Saarbrucken, 40 miles beyond the German frontier, and dropped many bombs with good effect. Fires broke out in tho factory. All our machines returned. Many bombs were dropped yesterday 4)11 billets and trenches, and wo brought down three German machines. One of ours are missing. GERMANS GETTING READY. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON, Oct. 17. _ The French staff learns that Germany is straining every nerve, in anticipation of America’s new'air squadrons and tin-.Allies' air offensive in the -pi inn. Quantities of threo-seater 26C lioim- power bombing machines arc building, capable of carrying eighteen hundredweight ot bomb:- and climbing 12,000 feet in thirty-live minutes. Aeroplanes of the. new models, and of. every typo are being feverishly produced, including a new machine, built entirely of metal for co-operation with the infantry. A big German bombing machine recently landed in Holland, fitted with an-elect-no installation for the purpose, of warning the aviator.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10111, 19 October 1917, Page 5
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182THE ALLIES' AIR OFFENSIVE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10111, 19 October 1917, Page 5
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