A MILITARY REVIEW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14450, 9 November 1917, Page 3

A MILITARY REVIEW.

RteCENIV ALIiIED ATTACKS. . 4 .-•.■r- •'. ,-LO]SDON, ftbv. li^ A v high military authority, m revi^j iiig Fran<!«»* says : — . .**«& * ?' The ,, operations at Poelkappelle shot-M be 'considered* 'as '"comparatively * mipb^ We * secured:* about - mq-fc& than Aye '■originally cpntomj>lat&l, butf<j(h the YpreS'Stadien lme, -over arfroßtrof 1000 we get all we wa^afci cd*. .The Germans have adopted a xiffc policy, and it is rather; difficult to k&jft. pace v with their metliod of. lying. Jmprevious communiques. 4>hey .always staiedt that we failed -to break, through. . :N^w, they, say, "£he. Anglo-French objectives lie about . Wo or Wo, ahd! a hal f k^o 5 ;. metresAbeypnd) the German front Jitie^ General Liid^hdorff recently referred our 'serried \ attacks round . QheJuveilt.^ This is wild imagination, for not a man, moved. ■ ■, * - -•• • '-' THE AISNE. ■• ■-* "Tli©: French 'have Obtained- all their objectives on a. 10-kilometfe front m the Aisne offensive. Juat 'as the enemy has been endeavoring, to':. make* capital "for. a* lbngi time past out of*, our colonials, byl asserting \ that -' the * English * have -thrbwhl the whole .brunt- of- the fighting;. oitthenf,* sp ; tive enemyv hais. nowtr led to saw discordlt between the French andtEnglish- by. sajf-1 ing that the latter < are, .doing .all vthev figtyiner. < and that} the French are • wopjii out. The best answer to that was .Wednesday's successful iaction. It was trujw. that the English were doing much of the! Boeh-^ figMiHig. -Jbtttfut (h-nisi* ;be semen* -1 beredi that, whilfe we were building , uj* our new airmy, the brunt of the^fightihgj f ell oh "France; ','■•'" v \\ ■"'**. [y ,BOMB DROPPING. » j \ "Now we'are.preparedVvweare willing to , *Use the bvmit/' Valid Jkeep taking \ iff? During, ' September , bur aei-pplanes otaried.out' 2?6Vraid!s, droppnig 7886 bombd,* pi* 125 tons of'-eipldsivefe, * Tfte^jGermaysj m the /same periodi droppedl' lOCO bbmitti!' on us., j Bombing is .al-. very small pant' of the air Svprk. . , : its most importanp work. is d,ir,eetihg.. >ji*tii^ery: . Onebig gvlh didt mor^'dathage tbah; 30 aeroplaifesi •Seven thonsj^hd .nine hiip dsted.: and sixtyfour. ,sbbts were i'directedl i.cpm .-the >ai£ upon ,1813 enemy, batteries; .which wej-e successfully t deg*4t , with. -Against tjhis y the enemy only 'ranged' on 743 of burguns from the air. ■■'.'.- ;••;'• HEROES UNSUNG. -V; * .'..'{'. ■ : > - ,< l*n i >thei i aerial 'engagemepts- in Se^i-i tember we. bought down* 374 enemy v ma*- " chines, on a conservative estimate. Most of 'the : .bellige(rent-armies base* had their aiiyherpes, whptn tiiey adyeilbi^e; y We dp not advertise purs,, and. the vraain reason is'becausfrf of',4hefn*vfißh i .of',,om , :,own aiijmen. They say: 'We are m a corispicitous* service, our comradtes m the trenches ase*jiri ; ,mpjft danger W e prefer the- Commahdbr-in-Ohief "to deal with our deeda m the same way as with those i«> thevtfrfe'nches/ V. '■- v.v*V;\ A The High Authority adds: > 'We havte sqme whoge; rjacords- exceedirthose'.of ,an-u :*• bfchcr.'army; <Ori&ilsnglish officer, brought down 46< enemy machines. '-* ; -'f-