The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-09-25
FIGHTING FOR
lin SUPREMACY
Both French and Germans
Claim Victory,
FIFTY PLANES WERE LOST
Some Descend in Flames, While Many
Others Were Wrecked-French Re
Dor. Of Battles.

ondon, Sept. 25.-Fiity aaryplaneS
wera brought down in al extraordinary
srIes OF air lights On the western
front. extendin5 rom Lorraine almost
to the sea.
Paris reports twenty-nine aeroplane
engagements with the Germans &nd
twenty-six machines having been
brought down, many of witch were de-
stroyed an many otAers lore ed to de-
scend behind tie French lines.
Germany, with less detail, announces
from Ler.in t.&t tGo.-,, fo3r e"tonte
aerop,anes we're bsCuglt Gown, 81
which were destroyed The less OF
six aeroplanes is admitted. The French
did not mention their own losses. Ber-
lin claims six civil iars were killed by
an allied air raid on Lille, held by
the Germans.
Land operations have taken second
rank in importance to the aerial war
fare. Paris reports the repulse of Ger
man attacks on Liable farm, north OF
the Somme. Anglo-French assaults
near Courcelette, Rancourt and Couch
avesnes failed, Berlin states.
"South of the Ancre Brook, says the
| official British statement, there was
considerable military activity during
! the night OF both sides. East of Neu-
vile st. WAIST, the enemy's trenches
were entered and prisoners were
| taken.
! The French report reads:
81 artj lev
showed activity during the night The
enemy replied feeb'y.
"On the right bank of the Meus >
! (Verdun 'front.' we easily repulsed saV-
eral German attempts upon Polvre
Hill and southwest of Thiaumont
"Aviation-Enemy airmen having
| shown unusual activity our pursuin
squadrons successfully engaged them
in aerial combats.
"On the Somme front there were
Twenty-Five engagements. Four enc
my planes were brought down. One
! fell in the VauX woods. Two attacked
by Sublieutenant Guynemer, descend
ed in flames, after some minutes of
fighting, making Guynemer's seven
teenth and eighteenth aeroplanes. A
fourth machine crashed to the earth
south of Miserey. Three other Ger
man machines were seriously hit and
fell wrecked near Estrees, and in the
region of Peronne.
-Four enemy aeroplanes were com
PEELED to descend in their own lines.
1t is confirmed that one German ma
chine reported seriously hit September
% was brought down between Miserey
and Villers- Carbonnel.
Between Chaulnes AMI Hayre six
Germans were brought down. One
fell burning near Chaulnes during an
engagement getween four French and
six enemy machines. A second fell at
Licourt, a third at Prvilers and a
fourth south of Marchelpot. A fifth
and a sixth were brought down by
the same pilot in an engagement be-
tween a French squadron and six Ger
mans. They fell in the region of An
dechy, in our lines.
"a Fckke~ fol flaming ne"r our
lines north CT Chalous. Another was
apparently seriously damaee1.
ION the Ver3ua regto on a mac Inc
winged the German lines. The ma
chine descended on Poivre Hill. A
Fokker dived vertically into our lines
east of ST. Michael.
''In Lorraine a French pilot pur-
sued a Germn machine for twelve
miles into the German lines, killed the
passenger and compelled the machine
to descend Another enemy machine
descended in the forest of Gamecy. In
the Vosges two enemy machines divei
nose downward into our lines af e.
fighting our pilots"