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1915 - 0521.PDF
AIRCRAFT AND THE, WAR. IN the "wireless" news sent out from Berlin on the 6th inst. there was the following :— " Our aviators attacked the aviation ground at Corieux, east of Epinal, and a French camp on the Breilrirst, East of Kruet, in the Vosges." Writing from the Eastern Mediterranean Base, under date of the 6th inst., the DAILY TELEGRAPH correspondent in the Dardanelles said : — "An intense bombardment was in progress from midnight on Sunday to seven in the morning tf yesterday. The sound was dis tinctly audible, even at this distance, fifty odd miles away, thus giving the lie to the statement printed in pamphlets, and thrown broadcast over the Australian lines by a German aviator, that the British Fleet had abandoned them." news of the 7 th inst., it was In the German " wireless stated :— " In Champagne, south-west of Suippes, our airmen successfully bombarded an enemy military camp." The DAILY MAIL correspondent at Porrentruy (Switzer land), writing on the 7th inst., said :— " In Alsace German aeroplanes have been flying over the whole front day and night, and a fresh attempt was made to bombard the station of Delle." In the Austrian communique of the 7 th there was the following:— " The Italian airmen threw three bombs on Trieste without doing much damage. " Several of our airmen successfully intervened in the battle [east of Trebinje, Montenegro] with bombs and machine-gun fire." According to information received from Ghent by the ECHO BELGE on the 7th inst., a Zeppelin developed a defect in its motors a day or two previously and fell upon a farmhouse at Assenede. A Central News message from Amsterdam on the 7th inst., stated:— " Some of the aeroplanes which made a raid on the Zeppelin shed at Brussels afterwards flew over Malines and attacked the Arsenal there. Although a number of bombs were dropped it is reported that not much damage was done." In a despatch from Otavifontein (S.W. Africa), via Cape Town, July 7th, dealing with the operations in German S.W. Africa, Reuter's correspondent said :— " Fighting occured along the whole front, often at a few yards distance. Aeroplanes of the Union force were hovering over the scene of actiou." In the Turkish communique of the 7 th inst. there was the following:— " Our airmen have twice dropped bombs successfully on the enemy troops." The DAILY TELEGRAPH correspondent at Athens, writing on the 7th inst., said :— " It is reported from Mitylene that a British hydroplane, setting out from Mudros, threw bombs on Smyrna. The Turks fired upon the airman, but without success. The hydroplane afterwards dropped bombs on the Turkish batteries at Aivali, returning there after to Mitylene because of slight motor trouble." The DAILY MAIL correspondent at Rotterdam on the 8th, reported the following :— " I learn from Bruges that on Tuesday 20 Allied aeroplanes made a raid on the city and caused much destruction at the docks." The Central News correspondent in Northern France on the 8th inst. said :— " Prisoners admit that the systematic raids by British airmen into enemy terriiory have inflicted considerable damage, and excited much alarm in the attacked areas." In a message from Milan to the DAILY TELEGRAPH on the 8th inst., dealing with the fighting between Castello Nuovo and Monfalcone, Mr. A. Beaumont said :— " The land forces were very materially assisted by dirigibles and flight squadrons, which joined the general action on July 5th and 6th, not only exploring the enemy's positions, but seriously inter fering with his manoeuvres and defences by dropping bombs on railways, damaging another junction at Opicina, not many kilo metres from Trieste, bombarding the aviation station at Aisovizza, on the right of Gorizia, near the road leading to Aidussina, and dropping bombs likewise on the railway station of Nabresina, on the strategic coast line, halfway between Monfalcone and Trieste." The following information was received from Rome by the PETIT JOURNAL on the 8th inst.:— " In consequence of the damage caused by the bombardment of the technical works at Trieste by an Italian airship, the Austrians have been obliged to stop the manufacture of the large 305 mm. shell." Reuter's correspondent at Athens on the 8th inst., reported:— " A delayed message which has arrived here from Constantinople states that last week thirteen trucks of benzine, four trucks of sulphur, and four aeroplanes in sections arrived there via Bulgaria. All were concealed amongst hospital and medical material." Mr. A. Beaumont, writing to the DAILY TELEGRAPH from Milan on the 9th inst., said:— " Another instance recorded to-day is that of an Italian aviator, who, landing behind the enemy's lines, left an observation officer there to take notes, and returned to pick him up again after the latter had obtained all the information desired." Writing from Chiasso on the 9th inst., the DAILY MAIL correspondent said :— " An Austrian aeroplane appeared over Venice about eight o'clock yesterday morning at a height of 6,000 ft., and dropped eight bombs. One fell on an old house. One person was killed and several were injured. It is believed that the aeroplane dropped air torpedoes on their heads. The population preserved great calm. This was the fourth air raid on Venice." "A neutral correspondent," writing in the DAILY MAIL of the 9th inst., regarding a visit to Brussels, said :— " The most exciting incident of life in Brussels during lune was the firing of Russian guns at British aircraft. The captured Russian field artillery had been posted outside the town to assist in the defence of the city against air raids, but during my visit I did not see any other prominent signs of defence. " The airshed near Brussels destroyed by Allied airmen contained one Zeppelin, two Taubes, and a large supply of petrol. It has now been rebuilt. The worst loss, according to the Germans them selves, was the Zepptlin destroyed by Lieut. Warneford. German officers told the Mother-superior of the convent on which the wreckage fell, that they would 'rather have lost 5,000 men than the crew of that Zeppelin.' It contained some engineers who could not be replaced without four to five years' training." The DAILY TELEGRAPH correspondent at Mitylene, writing on the 9th inst., describing a Turkish attack from Kum Kale, on the British encampment on the Gallipoli Peninsula, said:— "During the night it was difficult to locate the guns the enemy had brought down, as their positions had been cleverly chosen to render them difficult of detection. When day broke, however, two of our aeroplanes flew over and located their positions, and our batteries on the European shore and a French battleship soon reduced them to silence." Writing from Paris on Saturday an EVENING STANDARD correspondent said:— " Although the details are being kept secret, the French Govern ment is busy at present with the construction of a new type of aero plane, which is expected to prove a formidable rival to the Zeppelins, especially in regard to the amount of explosives that can be carried. " The new machines are expected to appear at an early date, thus marking another notable advance in aerial navigation. " ' There has been hardly an improvement in the German aero planes since the beginning of the war,' said a well-known French airman, ' but the aerial branch of the French army service has shown enormous progress. " ' This but proves once more that the Germans are excellent imitators, but that, once left to their own devices, they are incapable of creating anything original. Their Taubes and Aviatiks are already behind the times, and as the war continues the Germans will become hopelessly outclassed in aerial equipment, despite their huge Zeppelins.' " The German " wireless:' on Sunday contained the following:— " Our airmen attacked the railway at Gerard mer." 521
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