THE AIR-FIGHTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1918, Page 7

THE AIR-FIGHTERS

MUCH ACTIVITY ON ALL SECTORS.

LONDON, sth October. Sir Douglas Ha-ig reports: We destroyed twenty-seven hostile aircraft and drove down five out of control. Twelve British machines are missing. We dropped twenty-six tons of bombs by day and thirty tons by night, doing considerable damage to the enemy junctions and communications. A French communique states: Favourable weather facilitated aviation ou Thursday. Nineteen enemy, aeroplanes were brought down and three balloons were set on fire. Our scouts pushed far into the enemy's lines. Fifty-one tons of bombs were dropped on the enemy's reserves, massed with a view to a counterattack. On one sector our, aeroplanes again fed the advanced troops with five tons of food, and cartridges were also supplied. Twenty-nine tons of projectiles were dropped at night on the enemy's bivouacs and cantonments on a wide front. The Press Bureau states: The Independent Air Force on the night of 3rd October bombed the railways at Metz-Sablons, and the aerodromes at Morhange and Frescaty. Observation was difficult, but fires and eipldsions were observed frequently. All the machines rst»med.