‘September 7.—Our Service d’Aviation took an active part in the actions of the past days on the Somme front, watching the movements of the enemy’s infantry, carrying out bombardments in the rear of the German lines, and attacking with machine-guns troops on the march. Our machines, armed with guns, repeatedly bombarded the enemy’s trenches. During the air-fights which took place yesterday two machines were brought down by our pilots. One fell in the direction of Gueudecourt, and the other in the neighbourhood of Brie-en-Santerre. ‘Five other German machines were forced to descend damaged. ‘During the night of the sixth, in spite of unfavourable atmospheric conditions, sixteen of our bombarding aeroplanes dropped heavy bombs on railway stations, bivouacs, and enemy stores at Roisel and Villecourt (Sommecourt), where a big fire was caused. ‘September 8.—Yesterday, on the Somme front, two enemy aeroplanes were brought down in the region of Epenancourt. Another was forced to land after a fight near our lines, and was destroyed by artillery fire.’ On the fifth day of the same month the champion French aviator of whom we have read, Lieutenant Guynemer, brought down in the region of Ablaincourt his fifteenth enemy aeroplane. On September 10, 1916, French aeroplanes were engaged in forty actions over the enemy lines, in the course of which the German aircraft suffered appreciable losses. On the Somme front, Adjutant Dorme brought down his ninth aeroplane, which fell at Beaulencourt, south of Bapaume. Four other German machines fell damaged—one in the region of La Maisonette, the other to the north and the east of Péronne. On the Verdun front an enemy aeroplane which came under machine-gun fire at very short range crashed to the ground near Dieppe. Another machine was brought down in the German first lines near Vauquois. On the following night French aeroplane squadrons dropped 480 bombs on the stations and enemy depots in the region of Chauny. Several machines belonging to this squadron twice flew from their aerodrome to the place where the bombardment was carried out. During the same night eighteen aeroplanes dropped numerous bombs on the military establishments at Ham and in the region to the south of Péronne. The French aviator, Adjutant Maxime Lenoir, who distinguished himself at this time, calls for special note. On August 4, 1916, he brought down his sixth enemy machine, and performed other most valuable services. The coveted decoration, the Legion of Honour, has been conferred upon him.