Official communications are apt to make cold reading, but how much may be ‘read into’ them! Considered in the light of a lively imagination they convey a great deal. Between each line a story of considerable length and great interest might be written. Take, for instance, the following communication issued by the British Admiralty in the latter part of October, 1916: ‘Yesterday afternoon, one of our naval aeroplanes attacked four enemy seaplanes off Ostend. Our machine was under fire from all four seaplanes, but succeeded in bringing down one, which was completely destroyed, and in driving off the others.’ This was the second British aerial success against odds in the same week. A few days previously a naval single-seater machine attacked a large German double-engined tractor seaplane. The enemy pilot and observer were shot, and the seaplane dived vertically into the sea two miles off Ostend. Another British naval aeroplane destroyed a kite balloon in the same locality on this occasion. We may crave for further details, but the time is not yet. Naval and military censors, though subjected to much adverse criticism, are wise in their generation. Experience has shown that it is far better to give a light touch or two of romantic colouring, than to fall into the fault of conveying the kind of direct and definite information which might by some chance prove of service to the enemy. The following communications are above suspicion in the direction named, but they are not devoid of colour. They enable one to appreciate in a very real sense the heroic achievements of our naval aviators: Between August 25 and 31, 1916, a series of attacks were carried out by naval aircraft upon the Bulgarian lines of communication beyond Kavala. On the twenty-fifth the railway station and bridge at Buk (about twenty-two miles north-east of Kavala) were successfully bombed. On the twenty-sixth a similar attack upon the railway station at Drama (twenty-two miles north-west of Kavala) resulted in the burning of a large petrol store and considerable destruction among the rolling stock in the sidings. Bombs were also dropped on the billets of the enemy’s troops at Doksat (fourteen miles north-west of Kavala). On the twenty-seventh, Okgilar (twenty-five miles north-north-east of Kavala) railway station, where the headquarters of the 10th Division were situated, was successfully attacked. The station buildings were set on fire and considerable damage was done to the permanent way. On the twenty-eighth Drama Station was again bombed. The station buildings were considerably damaged. On the same day Kavala forts were attacked with excellent results.