Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 8 | British Fliers Punish Enemy

Bill F Llfflf IlilSlljiH? Offi Aviators Have Downed 339 Tr German Machines in Last Seven Days. t.ryVd Squadrons Drop More HiTjfr Than 320 Tons of Bombs ,,,1;', on Military Objectives. TNI; '"r hi U).Nr0,, IVid.'iy, An l'i.--Mc,v "u'lt """"'"'I ,y thf iitwnlifr of machines f-n- M-niii. ;hi, I.Im; intensity of th" fiu'h t.intf am N,IV'lT(j u,i 1"'.hs-m inflirlc.L on t ho rixwnv, t ho j"irpo; l'ij.4it iij; in Mm air during tin; l:iMt wtrk ri,,'(l(." , w;n Uii; inost formirlaM of (Ik; war. 'V 1 So inn of thf mo.st. M(!Tn con f ! i ct.s foii'n) ore ii r rc i on August S in the sfi'tor ho- 1 lw-'n Albert and thii Arnirrm -Wove 'linij ", ro:i1 1- 11 ' r ' 'hr'1 ' rfsii I tiil i fi the kh , ,f. Ht ruction of forty -oitflit enemy ma- (,n'' rhincH, whilu fi-vimi tet'n otli'Ts wcro k tlrivfii flown out, of control. Fifty lirit hnll . of i nh niachiiit'H fliil riot, return. 's,a,' ''Ihiriii'' j In- nix Nij't"ee'lin' davs I Sj iriiike: enemy (iirjdaiH's were destroyed and lifi!t ftihty nine driven down out of control, ni;ikiii ;i total of '.'.'Ml (Jerman ma-Kov.rr ma-Kov.rr '-h i run f f r t he wee It, coin pa red to i mono; fii'it i m It airplanes missing- I i ri I i di I ot) i hi n' squadrons rout i n n-LJN n-LJN allai iind military objectives, drop- pint; "lore than ,'!!J0 tonH of bombs and II cau.-ii f .cj p'eat damage. I wi w-I'lyi n i f'Oiih rnaidiini'M raked tlio enemy's ron-W. ron-W. I pcitcil roads of re trout with maehino of S-i 'itn i'ire, inflicting manv casualties. : A notable feature of 1,1 io aerial opcra-srrlsj opcra-srrlsj H"ns vv;ri th virtually continuous niht form' ''-''y bombing of the enemy bridges iiorti over ihe Somino. This greatly hampered Ioiikhi Urn Piif)dv and reinforcement of the ih hct ;,j-jn;tn troops. The wecl 'a work also u'i'i'm'J l'l"'u'',,ll H number of destructive raids 1re-. (ii't-o (iermany. n''iMt! (German Fliers Missing. n I WASHINGTON', Au'. 17. Thirteen jh'r tj tif tiennany's loading aviators havo nf I'oeii listed as missing in action since luni -Inly !, according to an official dispatch "iiinli from Fraiicn received liero today. The ltli!.' (viutors who have been thus listed and cn'rni !tho number otr nllietl niachiney which n,.(i, wero credUed with brinin,' down, I'vra .are: hrlmi I l,oo W'eiulhardt, rill; iMonshltoff. ; , ,,,,lf,ri iHnnpirt. and Uticklcr, li.'t each; Hillik, ,,,ri;lJ; Vlu'Htlll,l'f'- -: Von Turcheck, '27; clur 's'i rclistei ner, '27 ; Puett or. 2") ; Win isch, I'Vodericks and I'ippiihardt, - each, and Qp -lieinluudt, 20. j American Aviator Killed. PAKIS, Auij. 17.-Serooant William McKornetHs of Wallinl'ord, Conn., at-Nfifr at-Nfifr tache I to the Lnfavetto escadrille, was p. my Killed in a filit with eiht. eiu'iiiv ftir-t-ivm j,nnt.H on Thursday, according to Paris vicn 1 '('M ('' ' ( l''1"1'1 Tribu ne. tll0 t s .i b, d of M I- K ornrss and his) French pilot were picked up within the French lines. Flier Is Missing. WITH T11K AMERICAN ARMY IN F 11 AN CIO, Thursday, Aug. 15. (By the Associated Press.) Lieutenant llenry G. JleCiuro of Newton, Mass., has been missing since July 15. He was operating operat-ing a pursuit machine in company with others, protecting observing planes, when he became detached from his ' squadron and vanished.