SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S REPORT.
SUCCESSFUL RAIDS. GREAT AERIAL ACTIVITY. (Australian and'N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegram.) ■- .■■ - ■. LONDON, "May 18. - Sir Douglas Haig reports: — We took a few prisoners in a successful raid, in the neighborhood of Beauanont' Hamel. We rushed a post northward- of Merris, the garrison being killed or driven but. There was great aerial activity, on Thursday. O'ur aeroplanes dropped 23 tons of bombs on important railway stations, aerodromes, and billets. The air fighting was intense in the •early morning and evening. We brought •down 30 machines, and drove down five others, -while our anti-aircraft guns brought dbwii tm*o others. Two hostile machines landed in our lines, the occupants being captured. J*'ive Britisli machines are missing. Our night flyers dropped bombs on Lille, Douai. and Chaulnes, billets in ithe neighborhood of Bapaume, Peronne, and Pozieres, and qn docks at Bruges. The enemy's*- night flyers wero aJsa. active A Gotha landed behind our lines and the crew were taken prisoner.. In reference to thc Saarbrucken raid •on the 16th, three hostile machines were driven down, not- five.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 3
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