FRENCH AVIATORS DO TERRIFIC EXECUTION
ENEMY SUFFERS HEAVILY. ' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegram.) (Received '3__tch' 30, 2 p.m.) , PARIS, MarcH 29. A French official report states : Between the 22nd and 26th of March our airmen, flying as lo#? as 22 yards from the ground, dropped over 50,000 kilograms of bombs on convoys, marching columns, and massed enemy troops.- They al«o fired 1000 machine-gun rounds. The enemy suffered terribly. Sixty battleplanes and seventy bombing planes, on the 27th, inflicted terrible looses on the enemy's massed infantry and munitions dumps and caused great fires. . Bombing planes co-operated in attack-ir-f railway stations at Metz Ablons and Thionville. Several fires and violent explosions were caused at Metz Ablons? A French air squadron on the night of the 23rd dropped 3| tons of bombs on Badiseke amiline factory, Ludwigshafen, the principal poison gas factory in Germany. Forty-two enemy aeroplanes wore brought down.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14566, 30 March 1918, Page 6
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