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1917 - 0119.PDF
FEBRUARY I, 1917. [/UGH? AIRCRAFT WORK AT THE FRONT, OFFICIAL INFORMATION. British."^ General Headquarters, January 24/A, 9.20 p.m. " Very considerable aerial activity took place yesterday onboth sides. In the course of air fighting one of our machines was brought down. Six German aeroplanes were destroyedand three German aeroplanes were driven down in a damaged condition. Another two of our machines are missing." General Headquarters, January 25/A, 9.10 p.m." There was much aerial activity yesterday on both sides. One enemy machine was brought down by our anti-aircraftguns, and in the course of air fights four other German machines were destroyed and three were driven down damaged.Three of our machines are missing." General Headquarters, January 26th, 9.5 p.m." Yesterday our aeroplanes successfully bombed a number of places behind the enemy's lines. There were many airfights, in the course of which five German machines were destroyed, and five others driven down in a damaged con-dition. One of oJr aeroplanes is missing." General Headquarters, January 27th." Hostile aircraft 'showed less enterprise yesterday. Much useful work was done by our aeroplanes, and two enemymachines were destroyed. Another enemy machine was forced to land in a damaged condition. Two of our machinesare missing. Of the enemy machines destroyed since the 23rd inst., six fell on our side of the line." General Headquarters, January 28/A." Four German aeroplanes were destroyed yesterday in the course of air combats, three of which fell in our lines.Another hostile machine was driven down damaged." General Headquarters, January 2gth. " Much successful work was accomplished by our aero-planes yesterday, and some fighting took place in the air. One enemy machine was destroyed. One of our aeroplanesis missing." French. Parts, January 23rd." During the morning enemy aeroplanes dropped five bombs on Montdidier. A Fokker came down in our linestowards Fismes. Two or three German machines were , brought down, one in an air fight in the neighbourhood ofMarche-le-Pot, the other by our anti-aircraft guns near Amy (Oise)." Paris, January 24th." During yesterday Lieut. Guynemer brought down his twenty-sixth German machine, which fell in flames nearMaurepas. In the region of Verdun two other enemy machines were similarly brought down, one near Samogneuxand the other in the Spincourt Forest. It is confirmed that on Jan. 22nd a German aeroplane, hit by the fire of ourspecial guns, fell smashed to the ground north of Louvemont. " During the same day 16 British naval aeroplanes bombedthe blast furnaces at Burbach (basin of the Saar), which appear to have suffered considerable damage. One of ouraeroplanes dropped projectiles during the night of Jan. 23rd- 24th on the station at Dunsur-Meuse, the northern part ofwhich was hit. " During the day a German aeroplane was brought down inthe neighbourhood of Vaux Cere (Aisne)." Paris, January 2$th." Lieut. Guynemer yesterday brought down a second German aeroplane near the station of Chaulnes. This makesthe twenty-seventh enemy machine accounted for by this pilot. Lieut. Herteaux, during the same day, brought downhis seventeenth enemy aeroplane, which fell to the ground, and was dashed to pieces near Parvillers." Paris, January 26th, " On the Somme front Lieut. Guynemer brought down inour lines near Lignieres his twenty-eighth German aeroplane. It is confirmed that Lieut. Herteaux on the 24th broughtdown two enemy machines. The second of them fell to the • ground 1,500 metres to the south of Rocquigny. Lieut.Herteaux also accounted for an aeroplane yesterday. This makes the nineteenth machines brought down by this aviatorup to the present. A third and a fourth German aeroplane fell and were dashed to pieces as the result of encounterswith our pilots. One dropped in our lines north of Altkirch and the other to the south of St. Etienne-a-Arnes (Ardennes).It is also confirmed that an aeroplane caught by one of our machines at short range with machine-gun fire on the 23rdfell to the north of Craonne. " Daring the day of the 24th and the night of the 25thour bombarding squadrons carried out the following opera- tions: 210 kilogrammes of projectiles were dropped on the railway station of Brieulles, where a great lire was'caused.The railway stations at St. Quentin and Voyennes, the huts at Liancourt-Fosse, the railway station and the huts atGuiscard, the railway station of Tergnier, and the military establishments to the south of Chauny were also plentifullybombarded. " A German aeroplane was brought down west of Barlcuxby our anti-aircraft guns." Paris, January 27th." During yesterday our chasing air squadrons had numerous decisive fights, in which five enemy aeroplanes were broughtdown. Two of these machines fell in the region of Verdun, one to the north of Gincrey and the other near Mont Facuon.Two of the others fell near Trosly-Preuil and near Carlepont (Oise). The fifth, attacked by Lieut. Guynemer, was obligedto come down in our lines rtear Doullens. " The aviators, who were captured, confirmed that on the25th an enemy machine attacked by Lieut. Guynemer was, as a matter of fact, brought down by him near Goyencourt.These two fresh successes bring to 30 the number of German aeroplanes which this pilot has accouuted for up to the present." During the day of the 25th two of our aeroplanes bom- barded the railway station and military workshops at Ham.A fire and a big explosion were observed." Paris, January 2&th." In the region of Moulinville a German aeroplane was brought down by the fire of one of our special guns." Paris, January 29th." Yesterday Lieut. Gastin brought down in our lines a German aeroplane of tl^e Albatros type. This is the fifthmachine brought down by this pilot up to the present. La.st night our bombarding aeroplanes dropped bombs oa therailway stations of Athies, Savy and Etreillers. " An enemy aeroplane was brought down by the fire of ourartillery in the region of Danne Marie. Bombs were dropped on the open town of Luneville, but nobody was hurt." Belgian. Havre, January 28th. " The weather, which was cold, but clear, having againbecome favourable for aviation, our airmen were very active throughout the whole front. Our aeroplanes effectual^assisted our batteries, and pursued several enemy machines." Russian. Petrograd, January 25th." At about 2 p.m. an enemy aeroplane was hit by our artillery, and descended into our lines in the region of thevillage Smolno (west of Brody). During its descent the machine caught fire from the flaming benzine. The pilotand the observer, who attempted to escape, were taken prisoners. Two machine guns in the aeroplane were securedby us." Petrograd, January 26th." Hostile aeroplanes dropped bombs on the station of Radziviloff, without causing any damage."Petrograd, January 2&tk. " On the same day one of our Farman aeroplanes, in chargeof aviator Ensign Plugin and Observer Staff Capt. Kiselefl, returning from a reconnaissance, were attacked by a Germanbattleplane, with which they engaged in combat. After some machine-gun firing our aeroplane caught fire and fellin the region of the River Shara, south-east of Baranovichi, in front of our wire entanglements. The dead bodies of theaviator and observer were brought in the same day. " A German aeroplane dropped bombs on the station ofZamire, on the Alexandrovskaia Railway line." German. Berlin, January 2$th. " The clear weather favoured aerial activity on both sides.'' Bulgarian. Sofia, January 2gtk. " In the Vardar Valley aerial activity. On the coast ofthe jEgean, between the Struma and Kavala, enemy air- craft were very active. A British aeroplane fell north ofKavala, and the airman was taken prisoner. The machine was undamaged." H HI IS BI Bombs on Baghdad. WRITING from Sann (via Basra) on January 20th, Mr.Edmund Candler says that on that morning our aeroplanes had bombed Baghdad citadel, which contained shell stores,a munitions factory and artilleiy barracks. An Aeroplane in the Naval " Scrap." THE Berlin communiqui, dealing with the destroyeraction off the Dutch Coast on January 23rd, says :— " One enemy destroyer was destroyed in the course of thebattle, and a second one was observed by our aeroplanes after the battle to be in a sinking condition." 119
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