In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 73, 23 February 1918, Page 5

In the Air

THE EMPIRE’S AVIATORS

THEIR LOYALTY AND BRAVERY.

SOME MARVELLOUS RECORDS.

Press Association—Copyright, Austra/-

■,iau and N.Z. Cab’e Association. (Received 8.35 a.m.) London, February 22

In the House of Commons, Air Bonar Law introducing'■-•'the- Air Board’s estimates, praised the courageous boyish aviators, who constantly exposed themselves to attacks from enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft guns. He paid a special tribute to theOversea aviators for their loyal and brave services on all fronts. In one day owing to aerial observation the British artillery silenced 127 eneray batteries’ destroyed twenty-eight gunpits and damaged eighty, and also bombed sixty ammunition dumps. Balloon observations in the same day resulted in silencing thirty-four batteries. The work of ou'r fighting squadrons was glorious and invaluable, he said. During September they destroyed 139 enemy machines and sheft down 122, and in the same month 15,837 photographs of enemy positions were taken and 788 G bombs were dropped. FRENCH AVIATOR’S ADVENTURE. Press Association—Copyright, Austra lian and N.Z. Cable Association ■ Amsterdam, February 21. The famous French airman Garros Marchal, has escaped from Germany. Marchal flew over Berlin and just failed to reach the Russian lines.