MAGNIFICENT WORK BY BRITISH AIRMEN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15189, 9 April 1917, Page 5

MAGNIFICENT WORK BY BRITISH AIRMEN.

TRUE EXPLANATION OF OUR AERIAL LOSSES. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association and Reuter.) Received April 9, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, April 8. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—We progressed at a number of points between Selency and Jepcourt, and reached the outskirts of Fresny-le-Petit. Our aeroplanes on the sth and 6th continually harassed the enemy’s communications, seeking out his fighting machines to a considerable distance in the rear. Seventeen hundred photographs have been taken of large tracts of enemy country many miles to the rear. Despite repeated attempts to prevent it, the co-operation of the artlilery was not hindered. Seventeen successful bomb raids were conducted on enemy aerodromes, ammunition deptos, and railways a long distance in his rear, and there was intense aerial fighting in large formations. Twenty-eight of our machines are missing, but many of the enemy’s are known to have been shot down. Fifteen hostile machines were actually scon to crash down, and 31 others were driyen down damaged, the large majority being undoubtedly destroyed.