BRITAIN'S AIR FLEET

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2491, 18 June 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN'S AIR FLEET

MACHINES INCREASED TEN-FOLD SUPER-AEROPLANE IN VIEW London, June 10. Mv. 11. T. Tennant, Under-Secretary at the War Office, speaking in the ilouso of Commons, said tbat it was impossihlo to speak in detail of the Air service, but the number of machines had been increased tenfold and the men fivefold. There were now eleven schools training; pilots, accommodating two hundred students. . There has been no shortage of high explosive bombs since February, and the supply and reserve were now ample. The "War Ollico contemplated building a super-aeroplane similar to tho Russian machines. ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID. PEOPLE KILLED ON ENGLISH EAST COAST. London, June 16. The Admiralty reports that a Zeppelin raided the East Coast last evening. Fifteen people were - killed and fifteen wounded. Some fires were started, but these weie overcome. WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED. (Rec. June 17, 10 p.m.) London, June 17. Official.—As the result of a Zeppelin raid on the English north-east coast, sixteen people were killed, including a policeman, and forty injured. In connection with the raid on June 7, which was also ou the north-east coast, fivo men, thirteen women, and sis children were killed, while a drapery establishment, timber-yard,. aad terrace of small houses were burned. ATTACK ON ZEPPELIN SHED. RAID BY BRITISH AIR-MEN. (Rec. June 17, 10 p.m.) Amsterdam, June 17, Threo British airmen dropped three bombs on the Zeppelin, shed at Grondradi, south of Ghent. The damage is not known. THE RAID ON KARLSRUHE. A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. London, June IG. A Berlin communique states that nineteen were killed and fourteen seriously injured in the raid on Karlsruhe. Tho population is embittered on account of this. senseless procedure. (Rec. June 17, 11.50 p.m.) Copenhagen, June 16. It is reported that the Karlsruhe raiders destroyed the barracks and munitions factory. (Rec. Jun9 18, 1.25 a.m.) Rotterdam, June 17. A neutral from Kailsruhe says that fifty bombs were dropped, almost destroying tho palace, which was the headquarters of the local commander. Three officers and two soldiers were killed and over two hundred elsewhere. FORCED TO ALIGHT AND CAPTURED. GERMAN AEROPLANES IN FRENCH LINES. Paris, June .16. Official: A German aeroplane was forced to alight In the-French lines at Norroy-sur-Ourcq, east of La Ferto Milon (about twenty miles south-west of Soissons). The aviators were imprisoned.