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Show BRITISH SUSPEND 1 RAIDS ON COLOGNE Air Operations Back of the Lines Withheld on Religious Re-ligious Grounds. lXNDON, May 29. The British government gov-ernment has consented, on religious ami humane grounds, that, so far as it is concerned, con-cerned, there shall be no air raid on cities not in the vicinity of the battle front during dur-ing the daytime tomorrow, the day of the feast of Corpus Christi. This decision followed the receipt through the Vatican of the request recently re-cently made by the archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal von Hartmann, that, in view of the serious damage done lately by British air raids in that city, there should be no bombing there during the Lime of the Corpus Christi procession. LONDON, May 29, yia Ottawa. The British are carrying out continuous air raids, by day and night, at different points behind the German lines, where there are dense concentrations of troops. A German prisoner says that In the recent re-cent raid on Douai, 300 soldiers were killed or wounded and a great amount of damage was done. LONDON, May 29. British aerial operations op-erations are described in an official communication com-munication tonight as follows: . Our airplanes dropped twenty-five tons of bombs during the day on hps-tile hps-tile billets, dumps and railways behind be-hind the enemy's lines on all parts of the British front. Thirteen German machines were destroyed in air fighting and four others were brought down out of control. Five of ours are missing. Bombing was continued on the night of Tuesday. Five tons of bombs were dropped on various targets, tar-gets, including billets at Armen-tieres, Armen-tieres, and the Valenciennes railway station. One of our machines failed to return. On Wednesday a number of ma-machines ma-machines attacked Thionville; they dropped a ton of bombs with good effect on the station and sidings. At the same time other machines bombed the railway and barracks at Metz-Sablons. Metz-Sablons. All the machines returned." |