AERIAL WARFARE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3331, 16 January 1918, Page 15

AERIAL WARFARE.

British aeroplanes bombed the Roulers and Oourtrai railway stations, also ammunu tion depots, enemy billets, hutments, and other targets, and used their machine guns on the troops in the trenches from a low altitude. Fourteen enemy machines were brought down, and six British machines are; missing. The executive of the Women's Liberal Federation has protested against Lord Rothermere's policy of air reprisals against German~"oivilians, and urging the Govern* ment not to sanction tho policy. A French communique states: Our air squadron heavily bombed the aniline works at Ludurgshafen, the railway station all Freibury-nn.-Broi.sgau, the aerodrome at Neubreisach, and factories at Rombach, Maizieres, and Hagendingen. Despite the intense cold and unfavourable weather, oup pilots during December brilliantly maintained their superiority and destroyed or put out of action 76 enemy aeroplanes. Wa. lost 19 machines during the month. A German official message states that ths' enemy aircraft losses in December were 118 aeroplanes, of which 47 fell in our linear Wo lost 82 aeroplanes. The Echo de Beige states that the Ger-. mans in Belgium have constructed immense' concrete underground hangars, from which' aeroplanes emerge at full flight up a gradient.