WAR IN THE AIR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1274, 13 March 1918, Page 5

WAR IN THE AIR.

ATTACK ON PARIS. (A. & N.Z. & Reuter) PARIS, March 11. An official report states: —Seven enemy aeroplane squadrons attacked Paris at 10 o’clock on Monday evening. Bombs were dropped at several points, causing, casualties and damage. GERMANS LOSE FOUR MACHINES. Australian and A'./. Cable Association. (Rcc. March 11!, 8.40) LONDON, March 12. The Germans lost four aeroplanes in the Paris raid. SIXTY PMCHINES PARTICIPATE. Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. (Rrc. March 13, 10.45) PARIS, March 12. Olficial.—A Gotha biplane was brought down in flames live kilometres from Chateau Thierry. The raid began at 5 o’clock in the evening and ended at midnight. Sixty aeroplanes, in seven squadrons, crossed the French lines, though barrages of great intensity were put up. A few reached Paris. They demolished several buildings and set fire to others. A DEPUTY’S SUGGESTION. (A. & N.Z.) PARIS, March 11._ Deputy Abelferry, in the “Petit Journal,” urges the Government to expose German nobility and hourgcoisc prisoners in French hands to the same perils as French women and children suffer.

MANY BOMBS DROPPED. (A. & N.Z. & Reuter) LONDON, March It. Sir Douglas Haig reports;—A haze interfered with air work on Sunday, nevertheless 400 bombs were dropped on the Menin, Roulcrs, Ledeghem, Cambrai and Solesmes railway stations and other targets. We destroyed three balloons and brought down six aeroplanes, and drove down seven others. Four of ours are missing. RAID ON NAPLES. (Router) ROME, March 11. # A scmi-olTicial report slates;— Air raiders bombed Naples. Twenty bombs were dropped, and killed a number of people. A number of bombs fell in the centre of Naples during the air raid. The victims include seven women patients in a hospital. TONS OF EXPLOSIVE. (A. & N.Z. & Router) LONDON, March 11. An Italian oflicial report states:— Our aeroplanes dropped seven tons of bombs on enemy aerodromes and camps. Two enemy machines were brought down. AN EFFECTIVE THREAT.

(A. & N.Z.) LONDON, March It. The Press Bureau states that the War Prisoners Department was informed to-day that Captain Scholtzc and Sub-Lieutenant Wookley would be released and returned to internment camps. The month’s notice of intended reprisals would have expired tomorrow. [Early last month Captain Scholtzc amt Sub-Lieutenant Woolilcy, British aviators, were court-martialled in Germany and sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude on a charge of dropping hostile proclamations in Germany. Britain promptly sent a warning to Germany, through Holland, that unless the airmen were released from servitude immediately, and given proper treatment, reprisals would he made.]