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AIRCRAFT WORK AT THE FRONT. OFFICIAL INFORMATION. British. General Headquarttrt, June 6th. " Yesterday, owing mainly to the inclement weather there is nothing to report about operations in the air." General Headquarters, June gth. " Yesterday in the air, under better weather conditions, a large amount of successful work was carried out A considerable num- l>:r of hostile aircraft was seen, but there are no combats to report, and our machines carried out their duties with practically no inter- fsrence." Genera! Headquarters, June loth. " The enemy sprang two mines south of the Virestraat-Wytschaete road, causing slight damage to oar trenches, but damaging their own trenches also. Following these explosions hostile aeroplanes dropped lmmbs effectively on to our trenches." General Headquarters, June nth. " Rain and (hunder storms interfered with air work during the greater part of yesterday. During the fine intervals some successful artillery work was accomplished and six combats took place. A Fokker wa> driven down, and crashed in a field near Hnbourdm." War Office, June 12th. " Egypt.—The General Officer Commanding-in-Chief in Egypt reports that hostile aeroplanes attacked Kantara (on th; Suez Canal) with bombs and Komani (east-north-east of Kantara) with machine gun fire on Sunday, but were driven off by our aircraft. " A few minor casualties were caused at Kantara, but none at Romani." Russian. Petrograd, J'tine gth. "Near Buriatino, S.E. of Luck .... In one of the sectors among other booty we captured thirty balloons and tanks of asphyxiating gas. " In the neighbourhood of Molodetchno station an enemy aero plane dropped four bombs. " Five German aeroplanes carried out a raid on the small town of Logichine, north of 1'insk, dropping about fifty bombs. One machine was brought down by our artillery fire, and fell in the German lines." Italian. Rotne,June \oth. " Enemy aeroplanes dropped lx>mbs at various parts in the Venetian plain. The total result of the raids was seven wounded and some material damage. One of our squadrons of Caprioni aeroplanes bombarded enemy camps and works at Dazzees and in the Assa and Astico Valleys. All the aeroplanes returned safely." Rome, June nth. " Enemy aeroplanes dropped bombs on Fonzaso (about seven miles west of Feltre) without causing any casualties or material damage." Rome, June 12th. " Enemy aviators threw bombs on Vicenza, hitting the military hospital, and also on Thiene, Venice and Mestre, doing some slight damage." German. Berlin, June gth. '' This afternoon a French battle hydroplane was shot dowa by one of our seaphnes. The occupants were picked up and taken into harbour by one of our submarines which was in the neighbaurhood.'' Austrian. Vienna, June gth. " Our naval aviators dropped a number of bombs on the railway establishments at Portognnro, Latisana, Pallazuolo, the inner fort of Grado, and an enemy naval aeroplane station. Our land aviators dropped bombs on the railway stations at Schio (south of Arsiero) and 1'iovere (Garda)." Vienna, Jims 1 ith. " Our aviators dropped bombs on the station of Cividale (east of Udine)." Vienna, June 12th. '' A squadron of seaplanes freely bombirded during last night the railway linj between San Dona and Mestre (on the line from the Isonzo front to Padua) and the railway establishments at Mestre (near Venice), with good results. Several direct hits were ob served in the depot for locomotives, and a few bombs were also dropped on the arsenal in Venice. Nothwitbstanding the fierce lire of the enemy all the aeroplanes returned sifely." Turkish. Constantinople, June 8th. " Ons of our seaplanes attacked an enemy aeroplane which flew over Sedd-el-Bahr and chased it towards Imbros. We drove oft another enemy aeroplane by the fire of our artillery and destroyed an enemy camp on th6 island of Makronisi, causing great confusion by our artillery fire." Constantinople, June gth. " On the front near Aden two enemy aeroplanes were damaged and shot down by our fire. " In the Straits sector we drove off two enemy aeroplanes which flew over Sedd-el-Bahr and Kumkale." From Other Sources. In an account from Mr. II. Warner Allen, Special Representative of the British Press with the French Armies, on the heroic struggle for Fort Doulumont on May 22nd and 23rd last, says:— "A little before six o'clock on the morning of May 22nd an aeroplane squadron of the Army of Verdun went up and passed over the enemy's lines. A few minutes later six German sausage balloons which were flying ciptive above the right bank of the Mtmse exploded. The French airmen had accomplished their mission : they had deprived the German artillery of its best means of observationn and hampered its actian very considerably for a portion of the day, " A soldier amazed to see that the enemy's shells were falling well outside the zone which was usually swept so methodically by them, remarked to his officer: ' Mon Colonel, we have put a bandage on the Germans' eyes. It is as though we were playing blindman's buff them. They are firing as if they were drunk.' An Exchange message from Paris on June 7th says :— " The German airman Kandulski, who killed the famous French airman P<^goud in an air duel, has himself been defeated and killed in an aerial light which took place a few days ago near Mulhonse. The French pilot who brought him down is one of the youngest." News was received in Amsterdam on June 7th from Maes»richt to the effect that an Allied air squadrom Immbarded the wharves of Hoboken, near Antwerp, where the Germans are building destroyers.' The bombardment had satisfactory results. The machines all escaped the German fire. Mr. G. J. Stevens, writing from Salonica to th» Dai'y Telegraph on June 7th, says :— *' French airmen carried out a raid in the direction of Istip to-day. They dropiied bombs on enemy encampments en route and returned safely." In the Russian Bowse Gazette, in the course of an article by Mr. Farbman, who has visited the British front in Flanders, there is the following: — " British aviators protest against the Press tilk about Fokkers, and ins'st upon the superiority of British aircraft. I had the oppor tunity of flying on boa'd a new British model much superior to the best German machines." The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Rome, writing on June 9th, says:— » " An attempt has been made to keep the Austrian troops in the Trentino in ignorance of the disasters on the Eastern front, but Italian aviators have undertaken the duty of informing them by dropping everywhere manifestoes announcing the great Russian victories." Mr. G. Ward Price, writing to the Daily Mail from Salonica on June 8th, says :— "These last two days French aeroplanes have bombed the Bulgars' positions and working parties on their new line. But while the most advanced post of regular Bulgarians is 200 yards from Demirhissar town, their collaborators, the comitadjls (irregulars), who are drawn from the Bulgarian peasantry, have occupied some districts and are finding a congenial occupation in raiding the Greek villages within reach." The special correspondent of the Times at Sa'onica, writing on June I ith, says :— " Fren.h aircraft to day bestowed a leisurely, undisturbed atten tion upon Fort Rupel and the surrounding camps without encounter ing opposition from a single enemy air machine. "I near on good authority that the Bulgarians complain of the failure of the German air service to defend them from the incessant showers of bambs dropped by the French, and bewail the fact, too palpable to be denied, that their inferiority in this branch of warfare is more marked on the Bulgarian frontier than on any other front. " The town of Xanthi (about 10 miles b;yond the eastern Greek frontier) is stated to have been completely abandoned by the inhabi tants owing to the successful air raids of the French." 514 v
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