SEVERE AIR FIGHTING.
HEAVY TOLL OF ENEMY.
BRITISH DESTROY SIXTY-ONE.
(Received 12.55 a.m.)
A. and N. Z.-Reuter. LONDON, Aug. 11.
Sir Douglas Haig reports :—ln air fighting on Friday, we destroyed 39 German aeroplanes, and drove down 22 out of control. Twenty-three of ours are missing. We dropped 38$ tons of bombs during the day-time, and 18$ tons at night-time. A French communique states :— spite of bad weather our squadrons fought numerous actions, bringing down 14 German areoplanes. Forty tons of projectiles were dropped by day and night on enemy troops and camps.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16926, 12 August 1918, Page 6
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