WAR IN THE AIR.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 165562, 14 June 1918, Page 6

WAR IN THE AIR.

SO.MM TIIRILLIXG STOIMKS. Australian and N.Z. Cable* Awn. LONDON, .lime 12. Mr lVrrival Phillips reports that British airmen are active in tho French zona between Montdidier and Noyon. machine-gunning infantry and bombing concentration depots and camps. Ou Sunday night the British dropped over three hundred bombs around Hove and fired 30,000 rounds. Two of our aviators had a remarkoblo escape after being downed by an antiaircraft gun behind the German lines. They had many exciting adventures in tlte enemy's from trenches and in Xo Man's Land. The observer was stunned by tho fail, hut- the pilot revived him. Both walked towards the French lines. They stumbled on a German heavy battery in action and the aviators were forced to lie in a hedge all day long. Kventually they swam a river and reached a French jwst after many hair-breadth escapes among the German sentries, who frequently challenged and lircd. On another occasion a German decoy machine signalled the approach of a British patrol. Six German albatrosses swooned to the attack. Simultaneously another six: albatrosses appeared, confusing the first batch, who thought them Britishers. A general fight ensued, in which the British neatly downed the German decoy, also two albatrosses, and then withdrew, leaving the remaining albatrosses, fighting among themselves.

THE AIH MINISTRY. Sir Arthur Huberts, who at the end of April re-igned the ofli.e of Financial Adviser to the Air Ministry, has rejoined the Mini.-try.