Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-11-11 | Page 9 | Seventy-Seven Aerial Combats on French Fronts

SEVENTY-SEVEN AERIAL COMBATS ON FRENCH FRONTS PARIS. Nov. 10, noon. Seven ty -seven aerial combats were fought on the Fremh front yesterday. The war office reports that In these encounters a Fokker and nine other German aeroplanes were brought down. There was intermittent artillery liHtttinpr on various sections of the front and also infantry skirmishing. The statement follows: There was great reciprocal aviation avia-tion activity yesterday. Our aeroplanes aero-planes were engaged in seventy-seven fights. In the course of these a Fokker Fok-ker biplane was brought down within the lines nenr Auberlve; a Rumpler whs forced to descend near Saint Hillalre le Grand and the two aviators made prisoner; another mar nine was certainly brought down, and seven fell in the German lines on the Somme, Our bombarding squadron dropped more than 700 bombs on communications communica-tions and cantonments behind the front.