Airmen on the entire front, from the region of Havre to the Yosges, were engaged in the Somme region alone, according to the Paris report, twenty-nine distinct engagements were fought. Official claims as to results are contradictory. Paris asserts that the French Myers "intimately had the upper hand," while Berlin says the combats generally "resulted favorably for us."
The French official statement enumerates twenty-four German machines brought down, making no mention of casualties suffered by the French air corps. Merlin admits the loss of but six machines, and says "we shot down twenty-four machines, of which twenty fell on the Somme front."
The official statement of the French War Department, issued this afternoon in Paris, says, concerning aviation:
"Aviation: Yesterday evening, having shown unusual activity, output-suiting somewhat successfully engaged them in aerial combats, in a great part of the front our pilots gallied considerable success, and indisputably had the upper hand of the enemy.
On the Somme front there were twenty-nine engagements. Four enemy planes were brought down.  In the Y'ntix woods, two attacked by Sublimeutenant Henry, descended in flames, after some minutes of fighting, making their netner's seventeenth and eighteenth aeroplanes. A fourth machine crashed to the earth south of Miserey. Three other German machines were seriously hit and fell wrecked near Estrees and in the region of Pennine.

Four enemy airplanes were compelled to descend in their own lines. It is continued that one German plane has reported seriously hit September. It was brought down between Misorcy and Villers-t'ariionnel. 