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Show 1IRH B IN TIE 1LLIE0JFEHE American, French and British Brit-ish Squadrons Bomb Retreating Re-treating Huns. WASHINGTON, July 26. An account of the activities of the French air service ser-vice obtained from authentic sources today to-day shows that during the period of t lie first two weeks of June French airmen alone dropped 600 tons of high explosives on the Germans in the trencher, on rest billets, railway stations and on munition works far back of the fighting lines. A ' total of 27,673 nights were made for mill- ! tary purposes during that time, and more than "000 combats occurred in the air. In this fighting, jI'9 German planes were destroyed or forced to land in French territory and 161 others were damaged and probably destroyed, making a total of 3CQ enemy machines brought down, against a lo-ss of seventy -two by the French. Twelve of the French planes brought down were only damaged. In direct aid of the army, the French pilots and observers made 1 153 photographic photo-graphic scouting trips and took 1M7S snapshots of the enemy forces and positions. posi-tions. They also took 303 long-range . flights, covering enemy territory for hundreds hun-dreds of miles. Coupled with this French effort today In the Aisne salient is the work of concentrated con-centrated British and American o,uad-rons o,uad-rons and the airmen are at work n ight and day. Xot a spot within the enemy lines :s nenieot ed nn1 his rttrcat'in carried car-ried on under the same delude of bombs and ma '.-bine gunfire from the air that piaye-d an Important part in forcing a (Continued on Page Five.) (Continued from Page One.) way for the advancing Franco-American armies which have crossed the Marne. LONDON", July 26. Throughout the week the aerial fighting- on the western battle front has been of a violent character. charac-ter. From a trustworthy source it is leaiMiod that during the week the British downed seventy-six enemy machines and drove down fifteen out of control. Fifty-one Fifty-one British machies are missing. One hundred and fifty-four tons of tombs were dropped during the week. The week's record for long-distance bombing attacks was the heaviest of the vi ar. Twenty-five separate raids were made into German territory. Thionville w;is bombed four times and the famous poison gas fnctory and munitions works at Mannheim twie. The blast furnaces a t Burba-")! anil the railway and factories fac-tories at offenburg also came in for ahell-ins ahell-ins twice. Aerial attacks on German naval and Fnbmarine bates on the Bel.eir-in roast continued -day a nd night. Upward of twenty tons o explosives were dropped on Zeebrui;e. and Ostend. On the Italian front the a!r fighting resu'tel in the downing of nineteen enemy en-emy m:i "bines without the loss of a single British aircraft. |