AERIAL WARFARE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3333, 30 January 1918, Page 15

AERIAL WARFARE.

Sir Douglas Haig l-eports: Our aeroplanes during the night of tho 22nd dropped over 200 bombs on aerodromes near Courtrai and billets at Roulcrs and Rumbeke. We also air-raided Germany. Our machines dropped two tons of bombs on the steel works at Thionville, the railway s:ding at Bernsdorf (? Busendorf), and on Arnaville Junction. In our aerial operations on tho northern front we- dropped over 300 bombs on Courtrai, Ledeghem, and Douai Railway Stations, on the aerodrome at Courtrai, and ,on billets westward of Cambrai. (Our night fliers bombed aerodromes and billets at Ghent, Courtrai, and Roulers, and all returned. We also bombed the Mannheim factories, hitting the factory, docks, and the town, also the barracks and the railway station at Treves, the steel works at Thionville, and the stations at Saarbrucken and Cberbillim. (.?). Our pilots report large explosions at all objectives, and a large lire at Treves. One of our machines is missing. Hard air fighting continued all along the line, greatly in our favour. We brought down 16 machines, and one of ours is missing. Our night fliers on the 26th dropped eight tons of bombs, bombing five large aerodromes in the neighbourhood of Ghent "and billets in the vicinity of Douai; also 160 bombs were dropped on new aerodromes westward of Tournai. All our machines returned.

A French communique states that between January 1 and 10 the en/my aero planes destroyed totalled 19.