New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-27
Six German Machines De-
stroyed, Three Forced
Down in Day.
BOMBING ATTACKS
IN MANY DISTRICTS
Picardy Advance Aided
by AviatOrs, Who Drop
Hundreds of Shells.

Paris, Sept. 25.-Extraordinsry aerial
activity continues on the Somme front
In the operations which have resulted
in a sweeping advance by the French
and British forces in Picardy scout
aeroplanes Of both armies have played
an intellectually important role, direct
fng the fire Of the batteries, inAict-
ing damage on the enemy's works,
breaking up troop movements and pre-
venting the German machines from per-
forming a similar service for their
armies.
In the course OF operations to-day
French aviators engaged in forty-seven
separate combats above the she'll
SCARED plains OF Picardy. Nine Ger
man machines fell victims 10 the PROV
ess of the French birdmen in these
battles in the air.
In the last three days the French
flying squsdrons have conducted nearly
a score of successful raids on enemy
posts in the western theatre of the
war, throwing down no less than FIVE
hundred shells.
200 Bombs Aimed at Station.
The railway station at Metz-Sablons
again bore the brunt Of the attack,
being peppered with nearly two hun
dred bombs. The official announce
ment to-day says:
During the day OF September Is
French scout seroplanes delivered a
total Of forty-seven combats on the
Somme front. Five enemy aeroplanes
were destroyed and brought down;
three others were seriously damaged
and compelled to make landings, while
ninth machine, subjected TO machine
gun fire at close range, was destroyed
and fell. It was not possible for US
to follow the fall of this machine 70
the earth.
"Under cover Of these engagements
Sub-Lieutenant Heurtaux brought down
his eighth enemy machine in the direc-
tion of Villers, and Adjutant Dorme
got his twelfth enemy seroplsne at a
point TO the north of Lieramont.
an the Woevre district Adjutant
Lenoir attacked an seroplane Of the
enemy seating three men, and after a
very hard fight brought his machine
down near Fromezey, to the northwest
Of Etain. This makes the eleventh
enemy aeroplane brought to earth, up
to the present time, by this aviator.
Bombing Expeditions.
French bombing squadrons have
conducted the following operations:
During the night of September 24-25 a
total of 200 shells of 100 mllimetres
were thrown down in the vicinity OF
Villingen, on certain factories at Sarre-
Louis and on the railroad station at
Metz-Sablons. Twenty-Five more mis-
siles were thrown down at Rombach
and on the railroad between Metz and
Thionville.
During the evening of September 5
four Of our aeroplanes, armed with
small pieces Of artillery, fred eighty
two shells near the Forest OF st.
Vast. During the afternoon Of the
25th total OF thirty projectiles was
thrown down upon enemy bivouacs in
the vicinity of Montfaucon and Nan
t;llois, and twelve more upon military
locations near Azannes.
During the night of September %
90 French aviators dropped 102 shells
upon the railroad statkl and certain
enemy barracks at Guiscard, and also
upon the railroad station at Noyon, and
80 more shells upon the aviation fields
at Hervilly, and the railroad station al
Ham, Fins and Voyennes.
During the afternoon of the 25th an
aeroplane of the enemy threw two
bombs, which fell upon the sand dunes
to the northeast Of Calais. No damage
resulted"