THE AIR WAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11282, 9 January 1915, Page 1

THE AIR WAR.

FRENCH AVIATORS ACTIVE. MANY PLACES AHACKED WITH BOMB^I By Telsgraph—Press AMociation—CopyrijlkJ (Received January 9, 8:45 a.m.) ' PARIS, January 8, j The French "Eye-Witness" relates that French aviators between De-

osr/ibttr 2o am! «■!! dropped thirty-four bombs and 8f!0() darts on the Germans at Oercourt, Doudnou. Nampoel and St Hilairr, and ninny bombs on sm-ernl railway .stations in Alsace-Lorraine. Zeppelins have, nnl ventured to attack pineo the French airmen's aggressive began. THRUSH LOSSES. TWO TRANSPORTS SUNK. AND CESSER MEDIiDIEH DAMAGED, By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrigEt, (Received January S, 9.15 a.m.) PARIS, January 8. OFFICIAL. A Turkish transport was mined and &imk at the entrance to the Bosphorus by a Russian enviser. A destroyer shelled the cruiser Med- • jidieh, near Trebizond. The Mediidieh was damaged a.nd escaped, but the transport she was convoying was -sunk. COOKING TURKEY. ENVER PASHA AS CHIEF. " A WRETCHED BRAINLESS PUPPET." By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received January 8, 9.15 a.m.) liONDON, January 8. Advices • from Petrograd state that, 'excepting -scattered" hands of fugitives, there are no longer any Turkish troops in Russian territory. A Turkish colonel told the "Bourse Gazette" correspondent that Enver Pasha had been Turkey's ruin. He added: " This wretched brainless puppet of the Kaiser has brought Turkey to a position imperilling the Ottoman Empire. There is no 'true Turkey now, only a German province which the Germans will carry in their ruin."