BRITISH AIRMEN HAVE MOST SUCCESSFUL DAY.
VALW, OF POSITIONS RECENTLY
CAPTURED
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association'! (Reuters Telegram.) LONDON, July 1. Sir Douglas Haig's aviation report
says : — - We had a, most successful day on June 30. We shot down 25 aei'oplanes and drove down ten others tincontrollable. A large iiiunber of reconnaissances enabled our artillery to engage a greater number of hostile batteries than on any day for the past- fortnight. We dropped 294 tons of bombs during the day and 17 tons at night. Of the latter, seven tons fell with good effect oil railway connections at Tournai. Two of our machines are missing. (Australian and NZ. Cable Association! LONDON, July 1. Although merely local affairs, the French week-end successes are valuable, because, m addition to advancing 600 yards on a three mile front between Mosley and Passy, the gains included the heights overlooking the Ourcq Valley, which is the shortest and most convenient line to Paris. The new positions make enemy surprise attacks more difficult.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 3
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