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Show TONS OF BOMBS British Aviators Active on Baltlefront in France. LONDON, Tuesday. April 2 British Brit-ish aviators were very active Monday on th" battle front in Franc-, dropping seventeen tons of bombs and bringing down sixteen German airplanes and two balloons. The official statement on aviation Issued tonight says thai the nlcht bombing squadron;, dropped bomb? on railway stations In the area behind the German lines. The statement reads: "There was jrood risibility Monday and our low-flyinc airplanes again were active. More than seventeen tons of bombs were dropped and thousands of rounds were fired from the air at the enemy's infantry and other tnrgcts on the ground. Hostile aircraft also were active on the southern south-ern portion of our front, some of their two-seater machines firing at our i troops with machine guns from low heights. Hostile Airplanes Destroyed. "Ten hostile airplanes were destroyed de-stroyed and six others driven down out of control. Another airprane was i brought dn within our lines by Infantry In-fantry Two hostile balloons were destroyed by our airplanes. Eleven of our machines are missing. "After dark our niclit llyine; machines ma-chines bombed enemy railway stations, billets, troops and transports, drop-j ping many teemfes on the t'ambral rail- way station, en the station southeast 1 Doual. on the railway line south of ! that town as well as on other targets. I I All of our machines returned." |