BRITISH AIR RAID

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2280, 14 October 1914, Page 5

BRITISH AIR RAID

A DARING FEAT (Rec. October 13, 7.20 p.m.) . ~ Ostend, October 12. Commander Spenser D. H. Grey and Lieutenants S. V. Sippe and Reginald L. G. Marix, of the British Naval Flying Corps, left Antwerp following the bombardment, and decided to fly to German territory and do what damage they could' before Antwerp fell. Lieutenant Marix went to Dusseldorf at a height of 5000 ft. to escape German fire, which was continual at a lower elevation. He circled, over the Zeppelin sheds, executed a steep volplane, at tho rate of 120 miles an hour, to 600 ft. from the hangar, and then released the bombs. The German Maxims responded with a furious bombardment, cutting the steering gear, which jammed the rudder.- A bullet. passed through Lieutenant Manx's cap: The.wings of ■his aeroplane- were pierced in a dozen places, but he safely returned to Antwerp, which he was ordered to leave the same evening. . Meanwhile Commander Grey and Lioutenant Sippe, being usable to locate the hangars at Cologne, dropped bombs on the railway station, greatly damaging it. The "Cologne Gazette", declared that the raid was a daring act which Germany must respect. Other papers state the aviator, who was exposed t< ■ shrapnel and rifle flre, dived and shied so suddenly, that the spectators thought he was hit.