AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17429, 25 September 1918, Page 5

AVIATION

BRITISH NAVAL AIR FORCE. FIVE DAYS' OPERATIONS. lustrali&n and N.Z. Cable Association and f Router. \\\ LONDON, September 23. tlu (Received Sept. 24, at 11 p.m.) iuc The Admiralty reports : Between the eas 7th and the 21st inst. air force contin- of ;ents attached to tlie navy made four raids gu hi the Bruges docks, dropping eight tons an< if bombs. THey also successfully bombed sid ive aerodromes. In air fighting vre dc- tin rtroyed six enemy machines and drove inj lown five uncontrollable; three of ours tht ire missing. A hostile balloon that was ah ihot down fell in flames on a balloon camp, of setting on fire three hangars; all were tin 3urnt out. Ee Co-operating with the Greek naval air- Tu :raft, we bombed Constantinople on the dr< nights of September 20 and 21. Bombs Hi burst at Maidra Pasha station, also on an buildings northward of the Admiralty and Je in Stamboul, where many thousands of pTO- Pi' paganda leaflets were dropped. One na Greek and one British machine have not Ti returned. a th SIR D. HAIG'S REPORT. be LONDON, September 23. a . b (Received Sept. 24,. at 11 p.m.) A ' Sir D. Haifc's aviation report states: so In overcast and showery weather we dropped eleven tons of bombs and destroyed eight hostile machines; four of ours are missing. Our night-fliers J' dropped four tons of bombs on an enemy I aerodrojne near Valenciennes; all out ma- K chines returned. -=-—————— f"