WAR IN THE AIR

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13948, 29 July 1918, Page 8

WAR IN THE AIR

URGENT APPEAL TO AMERICA. * [Aust. and N.Z. Gable Association.] (Received Sunday, 6 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. Lord Weir, the now head of the Air Ministry, has appealed to the United States to send every air motor possible. ALLIED SUPREMACY GROWING DAILY. [Auet. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 6 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. Major-General Branckcr, the British Air Controller of Equipment, announced at a luncheon here that the British had destroyed 4900 enemy airplanes in the last twelve months, and had lost 1217. He said that the British supremacy is growing daily. MANY DEEDS OF DARING. CAUSE HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. Sir Douglas Haig’s report states: We attacked three large ammunition dumps, also the docks at Bruges, and numerous villages used as billets. A strong west wind greatly favoured the enemy in th c air fighting, but 25 hostile machines pverc brought down and six others driven down uncontrollable. Fifteen British are missing. Our nightfliers attacked the railways at Courtrai and Seclin, and also dropped 500 bombs on rest billets. All returned. Our anti-aircraft guns shot down enemy nightfliers behind our lines. The Air Ministry reports: High fliers on the 25th successfully atacked the station and a factory at Pforshe'im, also a factory and baloon station at Offenhurg. We bombed and machinegunned four aerodromes, hitting the hangars. We machine-gunned trains and aircraft batteries. All our machines returned RAIDS ON BELGIAN PORTS. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Monday, 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. Thc Admiralty reports: From the ISth to the 24th of July, air force units, co-operating with the Navy, dropped fifteen tons of bombs with good results on military objectives at Zcobrugge, Bruges and Ostend. Six hostile urnchinos were destroyed and eight driven down uncontrollable. Five British are missing. LIBERTY MOTORS CALLED FOR. [Aust.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Copyright.] (Received Monday, 12.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. Lord Weir, in Ins appeal to the United States to rush airplane motors to Britain, said: “Send the Royal Flying Corps every motor you can, especially during the next three months. We will install them in planes in which our pilots will give the enemy a foretaste of what he may expect in a steadily increasing volume.”