AERIAL WARFARE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11611, 10 August 1918, Page 5

AERIAL WARFARE.

TWENTY-TWO MACHINES DOWNED

BSD [WEATHER HAMPERS OPERATIONS.

London, August 0. Sir Douglas Haig’s aviation report states: We dropped over 17 tons of bombs in the daytime, on •the 7th met, with good effect. Fifteen hostile machines were brought down ami seven driven down uncontrollable. Two British machines are missing. Bad weather hampered aerial operations at nighttime. A ton of bombs was dropped. One ■of our night-fliers is missing.

RECORDS uF THE AIR,

334 MACHINES IN A MONTH

Loudon, August 9. A French communique says: 184 enemy aeroplanes were brought down in July, ami 154 wore seen to fall disabled behind the German lines.

Our aeroplanes during July set fire to 49 enemy captive balloons. Onr bombing during July dropped 194 tons of projectiles during the day and 556 during the night, on on Marne bridges and enemy" troops south of the Aisne, also on stations in the region of Laou and Hirsin.