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Show BOMBING BY ENGLISH. LONDON. April 26. The official statement on aerial operations issued by ihe war office last night reads: "Mist again hampered the work of our aviators on Wednesday. Our airplanes air-planes engaged the enemy's attacking troops in the neighborhood of illers-Bretonneux illers-Bretonneux with bombs and machine gun fire from a very low height. Two hostile machines v. . r brought down in aerial combat and another was shot down In our lines by our infantry. Two of our machines are missing. "During the night the southern portion por-tion of the front was covered with mist and our machines were unable to leave the ground "In the north, however, five and a half tons of bombs were dropped on Esiaires. Armentieres. Roulers and the railway stations at Courtrai and j Thourout. All our machines returned! safely." I on |