AIRMEN BUSY ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14868, 17 September 1918, Page 5

AIRMEN BUSY ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

GERMAN RAILWAYS AND

FACTORIES BOMBED

MANY FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS.

FRENCH ACTIVITY

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

(Received Sept. 16, 8 p.m.) London, Sept. 15. The Air Ministry reports.:— . . On the battlefront, in addition to the bombing reported in yesterday's communique, we carried out the following operations:— " We twice attacked Metz-Sablons, obtaining many direct hits on the railway I triangle, workshops, gasworks and barracks. ' Wo also attacked Boulay aerodrome with good results on Saturday night. ! We kept up all night heavy attacks on Metz-Sablons, Courcelles, Ehranga, ' Saarbrucken, ICaiserslautern, and aerodromes at Frescaty and Boulay, and obtained many direct hits on the raili way, especially at .Metz Sablons and Coucelles. We. caused several fires at i Metz, Kaiser slautern, Saarbrucken, and Frescaty aerodrome. Thre© British machines did not return. On Saturday morning we again attacked the Metz-Sablons railway triangle, an<! scored many direct hits--. Enemy scouts were active.

CABLE NEWS. [Press Association—Copybight.]

• We also bombed Buhl aerodrome. Three.British machines are missing. We also bombed the Daimler work? ;at Stuttgart an Saturday with good re- ! suits. During this raid we encountered I twenty hostile machines, of which we (destroyed two. AH the British aeroplanes returned. i We dropped 27 tons of bombs in 24 hours. A French communique states: i Fine weather on Saturday permitted of considerable, aerial activity, and there were very numerous severe fights, in which fourteen enemy machines were brought down and seven balloons were set on fire. Enemy troops were aerially machine gunned, and .six and a half tons or bombs were dropped on enemy assemblages. I Over 23 tons of bombs were dropped at night time at the railway stations at Laon and Conflans.