AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17327, 29 May 1918, Page 5

AVIATION

AMERICAN AEROPLANES. FIRST ON FRENCH FRONT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, May 27. The New York Times correspondent on the American front says that the first American aeroplanes equipped with Liberty motors have arrived on the west front. AIR-RAIDS ON ZEEBRUGGE. A GERMAN ADMISSION. AMSTERDAM, May 27. A German semi-official message admits that many British air raids were made on Zeebrugge oetween May 20-22, also on Bruges dockyards, where a torpedo boat was hit. GERMAN TRICKEKY. THE AERODROME. LONDON, May 27. The newspapers publish official photographs showing a huge Red Cross protecting the Thionville aerodrome. Air raid scares continue in Western Germany, notably at Aix la Ohapelle and Cologne. NAVAL AIRMEN'S ACTIVITIES. COVER A WIDE FIELD. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Router. LONDON, May 27. (Received May 28, at 7.50 p.m.) The Admiralty reports: Between the 23rd and the 26th inst. naval airmen's operations were hindered by weather Nevertheless they bombed Marsakerke and Zeebrugge; bombs fell near the lock gates. They also dropped nearly three tons of bombs on the Bruges docks on the ni"ht of the 22nd inst. ° In homo waters numerous flights were carried out. Submarines were sighted and attacked, and enemy mines were located Allied aircraft successfully bombed the Austrian base of Cattaro, obtaining a direct hit; also the barracks occnpiea? by submarine crews, where a fire started. BOMBARDMENT OF COLOGNE. PAPAL REPRESENTATIONS. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. ROME, May 27. (Received May 28, at 7.15 p.m.) In response to the Archbishop of Cologne's protests against aerial bombardments, the Pope has made renewed recommendations to the belligerents to abandon this method of warfare. BOMBING OF FRENCH HOSPITALS. NEW ZEALANDERS AND AUSTRALIANS SUFFER. LONDON, May 27. (Received May 28, at 11.20 p.m.) New Zealanders and Australians have fresh reason for steeling their hearts against the barbarous enemy, owing to the bombing of a base hospital in France on the 19th inst. A considerable number of Australian and New Zealand wounded men were among the hundreds under treatment at the hospital when it was bombed. Some were killed, others again wounded, and several, already in a low state through wounds at the front line, died of shock. FURTHER BRITISH ACTIVITY. BOMBING ENEMY POSTS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reutor. LONDON, May 28. (Received May 29, at 0.45 a.m.) Sir Douglas Haig's aviation report states: Owing to low clouds and miet on the 26th inst., little flying was possible until the evening. Our aeroplanes dropped four tons in the neighbourhood of Annentieres and Fricourt. We brought down six enemy aeroplanes; no British machine is missing. Our aeroplanes dropped 20 heavy bombs on the Bensdorf railway station on the 27th inst. Bursts were seen on the railway sidings. Hostile scouts heavily attacked the bombers over their objective. One of our machines seen to go dowii under control: all the others returned.