DARING AIR EXPLOIT
DUSSELDORF BOMBARDED LONG BRITISH FLIGHT The Prime Minister has received the following account of a daring exploit by » British airman:— London, September 23, 6.25 p.m. Official.—Admiralty reports yesterday that British, aoroplanes from naval wing delivered an attack on the Zeppelin sheds at Dusscldorf. Conditions of flight tvero rendered'difficult by misty weather. Lieutenant Collet, approaching to within.4oo feet, dropped three bomba on the Zeppelin sheds. The extent of tho damage is unknown. Lieutenant Collet's machine was struck by a projectile, but all the machines returned safely to the point of departure. "In the event of further bombs"-being' dropped into Antwerp or. other Belgian towns by German airmen, measures of reprisal will now be,adopted, if desired, |o almost any extent. Ihissoldorf is 145 miles from the sea-, ooast, and is about 250 miles .due east of the British naval base at Chatham.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2264, 25 September 1914, Page 5
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143DARING AIR EXPLOIT Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2264, 25 September 1914, Page 5
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