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Show 28 GERMAN PLIES WO BY BRITISH Eleven English Machines Missing; Allies Drop Many Bombs. LONDON, May 3. A war office statement on aerial operations tonight says: A most successful day 's work was accomplished by our airplanes Friday, good visibility assisting cooperation co-operation with the artillery. Bombing Bomb-ing was carried out with the utmost vigor. Over twenty tons of bombs were dropped on the Chaulnes, Tour-nai Tour-nai and La Bassee railway stations and on Estaires. Marcelcave, Menin, Comiues and Middlekerke. Fierce fighting continued all day. Twenty-eight German machines were brought down; five were driven down out of control and three were shot down by anti-aircraft guns inside our lines. Eleven of our machines are missing. After dark a thick mist set in on most of the front. More than two tons of bombs were dropped, however, how-ever, on the Chaulnes and Juni-ville Juni-ville railway juuetions. In spite of the very bad weather, all our machines returned. AMSTERDAM, May 4. The effective effec-tive work of allied airmen in harassing the German supply service is described by the newspaper, Lcs Nouvelles, of The Hague, which says that allied aviators avi-ators recently sank in one da' twenty-three twenty-three Belgian boats laden with gravel and road metal for the German front in Picardy. Tho vessels at the time were 12 kilometers from the enemy rear line. |