GREAT BRITISH AIR RAID REPORTED
NAVAL BASE RECONNOITRED 'f MOST SIGNIFICANT SUCCESS OF THE WAR'j ~ By .Talcgrapli—Press Association—Cojiyright - New York, July 7. • • -'A'.Berlin 4 message reports a great:Britlsh'' aerial raid upon a Gorman port, supposedly Wilhelmshaven. No details have been-received from London. While the German statement reassures the German people tliat''the attack was unsuccessful, and while there are no reports of heavy damage having been done, it is realised, that the amount of information gathered by- the reoorinoitring over Heligoland and the Kiel Canal wili bo most valuable to the British Admiralty. Some authorities assert that the raid is the most significant aerial buccess.of the war; the party accomplished their purpose, and got.away apparently without loss.. It is quite probable they dropped bombs and did considerable damage, which the Germans will not admit. German airships sighted advancing British naval forces ofl Tersehelling at dawn. • They comprised several hydro-aeroplanes» accompanied by eruisers and destroyers. , : •
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2509, 9 July 1915, Page 5
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153GREAT BRITISH AIR RAID REPORTED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2509, 9 July 1915, Page 5
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