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his sixth and Lieutenant Hoehndopf his fifth enemy aeroplane. The occupan's of one machine were killed. On Friday evening the burning debris of a French biplane which had been defeated in an air fight was observed north-east of the Hessen Work." Berlin, June \gtA. " Two English biplanes were brought down in the course of air fights, one near Lens and the other north of Arras. In each case the enemy aviators were killed. A French aeroplane was shot down in the west of the Argonnes. A German air squadron attacked the railway station, military works and factories at Baccarat and Raoul Etape. " On the railway lines of Gachowischi Luniniec.'which were being used for military transports, numerous bombs have been dropped." Austrian. Vienna, June \yh. " On Monday morning three enemy torpedo units penetrated into the harbour of PareDzo (in Istria, south of Trieste). They were driven off by batteries and aeroplanes. Their artillery fire remained with out result, only a wall and a roof being slightly damaged. Nobody was wounded, while the batteries and the aeroplanes succeeded in scoring hits." Vienna, Jti/u 16M. "A squadron of seaplanes successfully bombarded on the night of June 15th the railway station and the precincts of Poito Gruaro and Latisana, the railway line between Porto Gruaro and Latisana, while a second squadron attacked the railway station and mililary works at Motta di Livenza, and a third squadron the enemy positions near Monfalcone and other places. Several effective hits were observed in the railway stations and military positions, and fires were seen to break out. Despite a heavy bombardment, all the aircraft returned safely." Bulgarian. Sofia, June 14M. " In the afternoon four of our aeroplanes attacked the ships with bombs and forced them to retire at full speed in the direction of Thasos (an island six miles to the south). Our aeroplanes, although vigorously but ineffectively fired at by the enemy artillery and machine gun*, returned safely. The bombardment of the coast caused us no lo3«es." Sofia, June 19th. " For some time the French and English have been destroying the harvest by means of incendiary bombs. Yesterday in the neighbourhood of the villages of Zineli and Tarachmanli, at the mouth of the Mesta, four enemy aeroplanes threw some special bombs for setting fire to the fields, and caused some fires, which were immediately extinguished. " Yesterday evening an enemy aeroplane threw five bombs on the town of Bitolia. Two civilians were slightly wounded, whde the material damage was insignificant." Turkish. Constantinople, June 13M. " Yesterday morning five hostile aeroplanes dropped about 50 bombs on Smyrna, killing some men, women, and children, and destroying some houses." Constantinople, June 15th. " Two gunboats were destroyed by our artillery and are com pletely submerged in the Tigris, as has been established by our airmen. "Oa Sunday last our aeroplanes attacked with bombs and A Curtlss flying toat of the "Super America type, presented by Mr. Glenn Curttss to the American Coast Guard, who will employ it for "spotting" and reporting the location of derelicts. The well-known German Fokker pilot Lieutenant Immel mann, who is credited with having brought down a number of British machines. machine-guns an English camp on the Suez Canal, near Reman and Kantara, and caused great disorder. They alto attacked a British seaplane, and forced it to return to the mother ship." Constantinople, June l Ttk. " We drove off by our fire Iwo enemy aeroplane* and two torpedo- boats which attempted to approach Sedd-ul-Bahr. "On June 13th, two enemy airmin, who unsuccessfully bom barded EI Arish, were driven off by our battleplanes. Our airmen successfully replied by an attack on an enemy aerodrome, and returned safely." Constantinople, /une 10/4. " A torpedo boat and two enemy aeroplanes which were observed near the island of Kuesten (Makronisi) were driven off by our fire," the Bulgarians recently seized from the Greeks. The airraca believed that they did considerable damage." A message from the Timt' correspondent at the same place 00 June lath says:— "German aircraft to-day threw some bomb* on the Aided position* at Gumendje. On the other hand, French air flotillas bombed enemy camps at Negorlzi, SUnManltea, Prfritch, MS MS Strumnitza railway station while supplies were being unl-mded frosw a military train." Correspondents of Berlin papers on the Russian front report that a large numt>er of French airmen who recently arrived in Moscow are now flying on the Galicia and Volhynia front, while several hundred French aeroplanes, it is said, have arrived along the whole Russian front. Mr. G. Ward Price, writing lothe Daily Telegraph from Salomes on Saturday, said:— " Berides a heavier cannonade than usual on the Fr<*> the front, the past day or two has been not ceable lot greater activity bv flying men, both on our side and the enemy's. Enemy airmen bombed both banks of the Vardar River, in the hop* of finding billets in French camps, while our aeroplanes earric I out several" useful and lengthy raids. The French, for instance, have hoe* bomb-dropping over Monastir, Kuprulu, Petrich, and Dtriraa. From Other Sources. 533
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