HARD AIR FIGHTING.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14621, 28 January 1918, Page 5

HARD AIR FIGHTING.

GREATLY IN FAVOUR OF THE

BRITISH

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Router.)

(Received Jan. 27, 11.55 p.m.) London, Jan. 27. Sir Douglas Haig reports:— . The enemy raided a post south of Fontaine les Croiselles.

An enemy party was driven off northward of Passchendaele.

The hostile artillery is active at Havrincourt and Poelcapelle.

Hard air fighting all along the line is greatly in our favour. We brought down sixteen enemy macKnes. One

of ours is missing. f Our night fliers last night dropped eight tons of bombs, bombing five large aerodromes in the neighbourhood of Ghent and billets in the vicinity of Douai, while 160 bombs were dropped on a new aerodrome westward of •Totirnai. All the machines returned.