Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-02 | Page 2 | Fights in Midair

Fights in Midair. Aviation: Purine the month of April our battle atrial corps displayed . much activity, particularly in the region re-gion of Verdun, obtaining appreciable results In the course of numerous nrial struggles, where they kept an incontestable advantage. Our pilots succeeded In bringing down thirty-one thirty-one enemy aeroplanes. Nine of these i'iH within our lines and twenty-two were seen by our observers to fall in fames within the German lines, where they wero completely abandoned. aban-doned. Purine the same period elx French aeroplanes have been worsted In combats and fell within the German hues. The text of the afternoon official communication com-munication follows: After a violent bombardment yes-trdav yes-trdav west of the Meuse, the enemy at the dawn of day delivered a powerful pow-erful attack in dense formation upon the trenches captured by us north of Dead Man hill. Our curtain of tire, together with the lire of our machine Runs, caused enormous! losses to the enemy and all the assaults of the Germans were broken.