Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-15 | Page 2 | Allied Airmen Win Battles on Western Front

Ill BlSs ffll ISTtl FRONT r Nearly Two Score of German Ger-man Machines and Captive Cap-tive Balloons Brought to Earth This Week. BRITISH BOMB THE DOCKS AT BRUGES Teuton Raid on English Coast Results in Death of Five Persons; Armenians Armeni-ans Resist Turks. BERLIN, March 14, via London. Three machines of an entente air squadron flying1 fly-ing1 toward the city of Freiburg were brought down, army headquarters announced an-nounced today. On the Fran co -Belgian front yesterday, . the statement adds, seventeen enemy airplanes air-planes and three captive balloon were brought t earth. The statement reads: . Western war theater: In some sec- tors between the Lys and the Scarpe, on both sides of the Meuse and In the Sundgau, in the region of Altkirch, the enemy artillery developed lively activity. On the remainder of the front there were frequently lively disturbing dis-turbing bursts of fire and minor infantry in-fantry engagements in No Man's land. Seventeen enemy airplanes and three captive balloons were brought down yesterday in aerial engagements and by fire from the ground. Of an enemy ! squadron flying toward Freiburg three j machines were brought down on the ; frant. Baron von Kiehthofen achieved sis sixty-fifh aerial victory. 1 Today's report on the activities of British Brit-ish naval aircraft reads: j . Naval aircraft dropped three tons j of bombs on Monday night on the Bruges docks. The results could be j observed, through poor visibility. On Tuesday many bomfSs were dropped and a large fire started among the billets and sidings at St. Pierre Ca-pelle. Ca-pelle. During patrols enemy trenches were subjected to machine gun fire and two enemy machines were brought down ablaze. A hostile balloon, which was adrift, was shot down. One of our machines Is missing. FRENCH REPORT BRINGING DOWN GERMAN PLANES PARIS, Sunday, March 10. The official offi-cial communication Issued by the war office of-fice tonight reads: Both artilleries were active in the Ban de Sept and Vlolu areas. ' Aviation: On March 9 two German airplanes were brought down by our pilots and ten others fell inside their own lines. It Is confirmed that five German machines were brought down on March 6 and 8. Our bombinp: airplanes air-planes carried out several sorties. Fourteen thousand kilos of projectiles were dropped on stations, cantonments and aviation grounds in the enemy's zone, several fires breaking out. Eastern theater, March 9: In the Struma valley the British troops successfully suc-cessfully carried out several raids airalnst' the Bulgarian lines. At the Cerna "bend, after violent artillery preparation, an enemy detachment attempted to attack north of Or-chevo, Or-chevo, but was repulsed. ARMENIANS OFFER RESISTANCE TO MOSLEM TROOPS LONDON, March 14. Armenians are offering resistance to Turkish troops, according ac-cording to an official Turkish announcement announce-ment received here today. In Palestine attempts of the British to advance on March 9 and 10 are said to have been repulsed. An effort to break through the line of the Jerusalem Nabu-lus Nabu-lus road failed, the statement says. The statement issued by the Turkish war office on Tuesday says that Turkish Turk-ish troops have entered Erzerurn and are extinguishing fires caused by the Armenians. Ar-menians. Erzerurn, the principal city of Turkish Armenia', 120 miles south of Treblzond, was held by the Russians until their evacuation of Turkish Armenia. From authoritative ?;nglish sources recently re-cently it has been reported that the Turks were massacring Armenians on re-occupying re-occupying sections of Turkish Armenia evacuated by the Russians in consequence conse-quence of the reace treaty. On previous occasions the Turkish government has sought to justify such massacres by reporting re-porting uprisings among the peoples thus victimized. RAID ON BRITISH COAST RESULTS IN MORE SLAUGHTER LONDON. March 14, In last night's Hlr raid one airsh'p crossed the coast and dropped four bombs on Hartlepool. Six dwelling houses were demolished there and thirty were damaged. Five persons were killed and nine injured. The following official statement was Issued Is-sued : Only one airship crossed the coast last night. It dropped four bombs on Hartlepool. The ratdor. which was operating at a great altitude, only remained re-mained over land a ffv minutes and the remainder of its bombs appear to have fftiien Into the sea. imx fl welling houses were demolished demol-ished and about thirty damnged. The latest police reports Mate that the fo'.'.owing casutlaies occurred: Killed One man, one woman, thre (Continued on Page Two.) ALLIED Hil M 01 II FRONT (Continued from Page One.) children. Injured Three men, one woman, five children. Last night's raid was the second made in two days over England by Zeppelins, which previously had not been employed in these attacks for several months. In neither case, however, was an attempt made to reach the Dondon district, where German dirigibles met with disaster on previous expeditions. In Tuesday night's raid, Hull was bombed. Hartlepool, attacked at-tacked last night, is a North sea port of some 65,000 inhabitants in northern England. British Seaplane Raid. LONDON, March 14. Two British seaplanes sea-planes on Tuesday engaged five enemy aircraft over the North sea, destroying one seaplane and downing another, it is announced officially. Both the British planes returned. The announcement reads: On Tuesday two British seaplanes attacked five enemy aircraft in the southern part of the North sea. The engagement lasted thirty minutes. One enemy two-seater was shot down and destroyed, the observer of a second sec-ond machine was killed and a third seaplane was driven down on the water. The engagement terminated when the British seaplanes had expended all their ammunition. Both the machines ma-chines returned safely.