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(Air Raids and Bombardments, AEROPLANE RAIDS, 1916 (continued) Aug. 12, Lx>ver .. .... Sept. 22, Kent and Dover .. Oct. 22, Sheerness Oct. 23, Margate Nov. 28, London 1917. March 1, Kent March 16, Kent and Margate March 17, Kent April 5, Kent and Rarnsgate May 6-7, London May 25, Kent and Folkestone .. June 5, Essex and Kent June 13, Margate, Essex, and London July 4, Essex and Suffolk July 7, Margate and London July 22, Essex and Suffolk Aug. 12, Essex and Margate Aug. 22, Kent 2-3, Dover 3-4, Kent 4-5, Home Counties and London 24-25, Kent, Essex, and London Sept. 25-26, Kent and London Sept. 28-29, Home Counties Sept. 29-30, Kent and London Sept. 30-Oct. 1, Kent, Essex and London Oct. 1-2, Kent, Essex, and London Oct. 29-30, Essex Oct. 31, Kent and Dover Oct. 31-Nov. 1, Kent, Essex, and London Dec. 6, Kent, Essex, and London Dec. 18, Kent, Essex, and London 191a. Essex, and London Essex, and London Essex, and London Feb. 17-18, Kent, Essex, and London Feb. 18-19, Kent, Essex, and London March 7-8, Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedford shire, and London May 19-20, Kent, Essex, and London June 17, Kent Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Jan. 28-29 Tan. 29-30 Feb. 16-17 Kent, Kent, Kent, Totals for aeroplane raids 16 17 M 13 contt 20 I 77 .> I5>l 3 55 1 32 43 95 67 15 50 2 94 8 425 1 90 3 14 13 11 6 59 50 131 3 o-26 90 26 !82 195 142 619 741 585 324 B 27 79 10 6 26 '50 1650 23S 27 a a a Flying to the Peace Conference WHILE most of the delegates to the Peace Conference journeyed to Paris in the orthodox way, Mr. Bonar Law, accompanied by his private secretary, Mr. J. C. C. Davidson, started in a Handley-Page from Hendon. The machine landed in France, aud Mr. Bonar Law, having met the other Ministeis, completed the journey to the capital by train. Gen. Sir F. H. Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff, also travelled to France by aeroplane. Sir Douglas Haig on the R.A.F. IN the despatch dated December 21 and issued in the London Gazette on January 7, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, K.T., pays the following tribute to the work of the R.A.F. in the concluding stages of the War :— " During the past year the work of our airmen in close co-operation with all fighting branches of the Army has continued to show the same brilliant qualities which have come to be commonly associated with that Service ; while the ever-increasing size of the Royal Air Force aud the constant improvement in the power and performance of machines, combined with the unfailing keeness of pilots and observers, have enabled intense activity to be maintained at all times. " Some idea of the magnitude of the operations carried out can be gathered from the fact that from the beginning of January, 1918, to the end of November, nearly 5,500 tons of bombs were dropped by us, 2,953 hostile aeroplanes were destroyed, in addition to 1,178 others driven down out of control, 241 German observation balloons were shot down in flames, and an area of over 4,000 square miles of country has been photographed, not once but many times. " The assistance given to the infantry by our low-flying aeroplanes during the battles of March and April was re peated during the German offensives on the Aisne and Marne, on both of which occasions British squadrons were dispatched to the French battle-front and did very gallant service. During our own attacks hostile troops and transport have been constantly and heavily attacked with most excellent results. " Both by day and night our bombing squadrons have continually attacked the enemy's railway junctions and centres of activity, reconnaissance machines have supplied valuable information from both far and near, while artillery machines have been indefatigable in their watch over German batteries and in accurate observation for our own guns. in these latter tasks our balloons have work, and have kept pace with admirable ness with the ever-changing battle line." (Back from Germany, continued) Mcintosh, Lieut. R R Madge. Lieut. J. H. C Mathew, Lieut. C. G. Osborn, Lieut. C. C. I. Palmer. Sec. Lieut. C. H. Shadwell, Lieut. I.. M. Smith, Sec. Lieut. E. A. L. F. Smith, Lieut. V, Spiro, Lieut. S. G. Sutcliffe, Lieut. C. A. Wheeler, Lieut. L, F. Wigley, Sec. Lieut. L. Adams, Lieut. I*. Alder, Lieut. S. (Sher. For.). Baerlein, Sec. Lieut. R. (R.F.A.). Baynton, Lieut. G. R. Burnard, Sec. Lieut. R. A. (Loud R.). Clark, Sec. Lieut. \V. R. (Yen.). Cook, Capt. C. W. Couston, Lieut. A. Cross, Lieut. R. W. Fraser, Lieut. A. Griffith, Lieut. [. C. Grosset, Lieut, "w. E. (Hii;h. Cyc. Bn.). Hills, Sec. Lieut. F. E. (K.G.A.). Hills, Sec. Lieut. W. B. (Hamps R.). Kaizer, Lieut. M. M. Keller, Lieut. C. F. (Lond. R). Kilsby, Sec. Lieut. M. J. Kingsland, Lieut. W. R. Kirkham, Lieut. F.J. (R.F.A.). Macgregor, Lieut. K. R. (R. Scots). Mallous, Lieut. C. G. Miles Sec. Lifut. A. A. Molloy, Lieut. T. 1'. 1.. (Dorset R.). Moody, Sec. Lieut. B. C. (Lond. R.). Nelson, Lieut. R. C. Newenham, Lieut. G. A. Parkes, Lieut. G. A. H. Robertson, Lieut. G. P. Rothery, Lieut. H. Sharpe, Capt. T. S., D.F.C. (Glo. R.). Shurn, Lieut. C. A R. Taylor, Lieut. A. Thornton, Lieut. C. P. Tidmarsh, Capt. D. M., M C. Ward, Lieut. L. N. White, Lieut. T. W. Australian Flying Corps. Cornish, Capt. E. W., M.C. Feez, Lieut. C. M. Flight, Sec. Lieut. 0. T. McCulloch, Sec. Lieut. A. F. Nicholls, Lieut. W. H. Kandell, Lieut. W. B. Rintoul, Lieut. A. Wearne, Lieut. A. Willmott, Sec. Lieut F. B. The following R.F.C. officers, who were prisoners of war in Germany, have been released :— Sanders, Lieut. J. W. (Middx.'R.). Whittle, Capt. O. L. (S. Lan. R.), Chance, Lieut. W. H. S. (Wore. R.). Faraday, Sec. Lt. M. S. (R.F.A.). Hunt, Sec. Lieut. K. F. (Yeo.). The following officers have now been released trom Germany, and have been retained in Denmark :— Clark, Lieut. A. Gray, Lieut. W. Turner, Lieut. K. Watts, Lieut. R. Back from Turkey The following officers, who were prisoners of war in Turkey, have been released :— Capt. A. J. Lazarus Barlow, Yeo., attd. R.F.C. Haig, Lieut. F. \V. Hancock, Lieut. ¥. A ustralian Flying Corps. Por.le, H. A. A. Vautiu, Lieut- C. H. a a a a done most valuable energy and prompt- The Prince of Wales Flies over the Rhine A MESSAGE from Coblentz on Saturday states that during his visit to the American aerodrome there, the Prince of Wales flew over the Rhine in the course of the morning with Col. Mitchell, who commands the aviation camp. Chaplain-in-Chief, R.A.F. THE Rev. H. D. L. Viener, M.A., late chaplain, R.N., who was lent by the Admiralty last year to organise a Chap lain's Department for the Royal Air Force, has been gazetted the first Chaplain-in-Chief for the R.A.F. He is in charge of the Church of England Chaplaincy Service. To Celebrate Victory BY way of celebrating the victory of the British Empire in the air, a banquet is being given at the Connaught Rooms, London, by the Imperial Air Fleet Committee on January 21. Lord Desborough will preside, and among those who have already accepted invitations are Gen. SirH. Trenchard, Major Baird, D.S.O., M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Ministry; Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff ; Maj.-Gen. Sir W. S. Brancker, A.F.C. ; Maj.-Gen. Sir Godfrey Paine, M.V.O. ; Maj.-Gen. E. L. Ellington, and Sir W. A. Robinson, Secretary of the Air Ministry. Si
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