AERIAL WARFARE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3332, 23 January 1918, Page 21

AERIAL WARFARE.

Sir Douglas Hai# reports: Our aeroplanes carried out bombing and machinegunning incessantly on Sunday, 13th inst They; dropped 14 bombs on a large ammunition dump near Roulers, and on billets, hutments, and railway junctions. They aiso made a most successful raid in Germany in daylight against railway stations and munition factories at Karlsruhe, in the Rhine Valley. They dropped one ton and a-quar'ter of explosives, with excellent reBurets were observed in ~ buildings, on sidings, at the main railway junction' in the centre of the town, at workshops, and at smaller junctions at Karlsruhe. Our aeroplanes on the 15th dropped a ton of bombs on the Thionviilc steel works midway between Luxembourg and Metz'; also a further half-ton of bombs on .two laro-o railway junctions in the eighbourhood of Metz. Considerable defences iin the form of anti-aircraft searchlights and gun barrages were encountered, but all °our machines returned. On the night of the 16th despite the bad weather, British aeroplanes bombed a large railway, station at Bernsdorf, 30 miles south-eastward of Metz, also the railway southward of Metz. All the machines returned. The Daily News Berne correspondent gives details of the Karlsruhe raid. At least 10 machine;? wore counted, and bombs rained down for several minutes. The iiremen mastered the fires caused. Several British and French officers were killed anions the many hostages whom the authorities assembled at Karlsruhe. The utmost muignation prevails among 'the population. The Austrians have nromised the Pope that they will not bomb or shell Venico fearing that the, Allies mav retaliate by raiding Vienna.