DARING FEAT BY BRITISH AIRMAN
ATTACK ON GHENT
GERMANS OUTMANOEUVRED
London, April 25. _ '(Eye-Witness" states that the British airman who attacked Ghent last week threw a bomb on the airshed from a height of 6000 feet. < Owing to being fired at from a balloon and many soldiers below, he got above the balloon and threw a bomb which missed the balloon. He then planed down steeply under the balloon so that the balloonists and soldiers would not fire in fear of hitting each other. The airman then threw hand grenades until he got down to 200 feet, when he ■dropped his last bomb on an airshed, whioh caused*a heavy explosion. Ho then escaped, though, his planes were perforated with bullet holes. GERMAN OUTPOSTS BOMBED BY A TAUBE. Paris, April 25. "A Taube threw several bombs •at iS'oyon. They fell on German outposts. This result is not known. RUSSIAN AIRMEN ACTIVE. " \ Amsterdam, April 26. Ruasian airmen dropped bombs on Heidenburg (P'Neidenburg, East Prussia). (Rec. April 26, 10 p.m.) , • Petrograd, April 26. Official.—The air raid on Neidenburg resulted in the firing of the railway buildings, and tho destruction of the track. ■ ■ V
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2446, 27 April 1915, Page 5
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190DARING FEAT BY BRITISH AIRMAN Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2446, 27 April 1915, Page 5
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