ALLIED AERIAL ACTIVITY.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14857, 3 September 1918, Page 6

ALLIED AERIAL ACTIVITY.

[United Press Association.]

■•'••■: WeUington, Sept. 2. ' The British Ministry of Information #ates: —' "" < The past week -was notable for the ' arge number of raids by the British 1 nto Belgium and the Rhine provinces.. ( Then? was air lighting of considerable '< ntensity on .the Western front. Bri- 1 :ish airmen took a prominent and sue- 1 jessful part in the recent fighting in ' France.' Besides an immense number ' )f photographic, reconnaissance* and '< )unj lung raids, and contact and. patrol J tyork, thej'Mcnfiered invaluable assist- ; inoe 'throiighout the battle by 'harass-' ing; tlu I.retreating enemy irorii the air, iilehcihg iiimpedirig -attacking : i.^lated"' -'ceiiti-es' of .resistance .'a • losv^altifciide/^ith guns, and>' supplying' :ainnninitibn •■'by- • air :to ad-.j danced British units.; "'" ■'.. ';■."' - BritishvSiim€m>also::-^ta«k«d»'ip^oi^ c iflit railway, junctions a.t',.Douai, ■V-aleh-^ • felines,. Marcoing, Cambrai, and Som- -i main,, ca^tsing much damage and delay. •Over 260 tons of bombs were dipped on the, "Western, front. .Ninety-five enemy machines were destroyed and 39 brought down during the week. Thirty-..; fpiii-; British machines wore reported missing. . j., ■■'■ ■' There, was ceaseless British air acting on the noithein coastal legion Bm^es docks -\\oio laided nine times Good ic=sult^ -fleie oL^oivod Destructive files A*eie stoited among dock bui'dmgs Successful laids ■weie also made on tmpoitant miUt^y objectives it Zeebiug^e, CKtcnd Middelkeik", WosLende, Manakcike, Alai lanaltei, St Picue O.ipelle the * Zeebrui,^o-Bi uges Cum', (>ost«ickei and Ghistcile r>ie II A F mckperdent I<oice cauied out 30 sepaxate iaids into Geiman teinioiv, Pbtackiiig the enemy aoiodrome it !wiii,i\, Iho i nlvu tnanfrlo ab Metz bablon chemical factones at Mannheim, \v aeiodrome .it Riihl, the iaih\ay junction it Ticts tin station at Frank--1011, the btiixacks and station at Colo^jk iho^hcmwal ficto'j at Saaialbe, tlie itiodioni'^ at Folpciswcilei, the stT^cm ut jii\omi)oij',, etc Extensne dam it,c lesxiUcil Sheds and hangais \ eh h'ed at Folpeisucij and hies and explosion-. \ cie obscised at Saaialbe 'lno loh oj. Dombs uoc dtoppeci in ale lc ni^'t 3lannhcim, the explosions oc i>i l 'i'^, Cvtonsno hie* in the poison , °-> ii< io e^ attacked The second 4 lrihc mi if il is deluded tom the lo\. >>c Jit ot- 200 ft, the Butish a^men Pditoi \-\ , /oiili'i n collision j\\ith i clii clutr>ne\s All the Butish maJ c'nnos lcUnned, despite nea\j 13lt'-TiL( l^it hIC Lxili Jt idmej.i hi"\e also been active tiuoughout the week in the Meditoiranean and Eastern theatres, dropping many tons of bombs a*nd filing many tluH'-ands cf lounds of machine gun nnrit m ion m itli good eftoct iSme cnem Ti > tncs ncie destio^ed ard one u1 jv\ n 1\ o British niachir.es "> i > i t-\( lil^&in^ N