There were concrete gunpits about the positions in front of the town, which was flooded from the Steenbeke River, but the infantry divided and bombed their way about on either side until they had encircled the town and passed beyond, where the Germans could be seen running away.

They had bombed the station for the last three nights, I heard.

They bombed the railway several times during our journey, and once, when a bomb fell near our train, there was a rumour that the engine driver had gone away and left us standing.

By 3 o'clock the whole battalion was in the village, using rifle and bayonet in the road scarcely more than a couple of yards wide, and bombing the enemy out of native mud and stone houses and caves.

" "To bomb New York," said Fleck soberly; "that's their plan.

We started bombing inwards, but the slope of the ground was awkward, and they seemed to be having the best of the fun.

"Our machines then bombed the General, in which the German Head-quarters at Constantinople are reported to be situated.

They were going, it appeared, to bomb Gradisca.

They seemed to prefer venturing out after nightfall, gathering in force, and often taking a strange satisfaction in bombing some Red Cross hospital, where frequently their own wounded were being treated alongside the American doughboys.

You don't imagine anything could have happened to Bessie or Mrs. Gleasonthe Huns haven't been trying to bomb any 'Y' huts or hospitals lately, have they, Tom?" "Not that I've heard," came the ready answer.

"The R.F.C. on the same day bombed the junction.

Any one on any ship passing through the Canal could see the place, and it is surprising, and it certainly points to a lack of enterprise on the part of the Germans, that no attempt was made to bomb Kantara by the super-Zeppelin which in November 1917 left its Balkan base and got as far south as the region of Khartoum on its way to East Africa, before being recalled by wireless.

"THAT BEING SO, LET'S HOPE THEY'LL STOP THOSE CURSED BRITISH AIRMEN FROM BOMBING OUR LINES EVERY DAY AND NIGHT.

And a weekly paper, conspicuous for the insistence with which it proclaims its superiority to all others, has been asking: If 17 German aeroplanes can visit and bomb London in broad daylight, what is to prevent our enemy from sending 170 or even 1,700?

My friend Mr. John Sampson recently expressed to me a hope that our air-forces would not bomb Mainz, 'for Mainz', he said, 'is a sacred place to the bibliographer'.

But it was not enough to surmise these things; he must make sure, and, if possible, bomb the working party or the entrance to the mine tunnel.

The French no longer feared to illuminate to a limited extent since bombing planes no longer came raiding at night, nor did that unseen monster Krupp cannon deliver its regular messages of bursting shells.

Tomorrow we shall continue our work of knocking down their batteries and bombing their railroads.

ALLIES CONTROL IN THE AIR German aeroplanes played no great part in the advance, although they bombed the British and French rear nightly, and the air service of the Allies proved superior throughout the battle.

Our aircraft had bombed the road, and the dead men, cattle and horses, and smashed transport were ghastly sights and made the air offensive.

Dispatches regularly referred to the deaths of Iraqi soldiers as the 'softening of enemy positions', bombing strikes as 'targets of opportunity', and civilian deaths as the now-laughable 'collateral damage'.

The big bombers had but one object in view, which was to bomb the important target below.

The Huns use such planes to bomb unprotected towns and kill women and babies; ours go in for bombing ammunition dumps and trains and railway stations and other places of military importance, although, by now, they may be indulging in reprisals for some of Fritz's murderous raids, as so many folk at hame in Britain have prayed they would.

Within a few days he was a private soldier; he was killed, as sergeant-major, while bombing a trench on August 18, 1916.

An enemy plane came over and bombed Treviso, when we were in the station square, trying in vain to find a conveyance.