RAID ON DOVER.
TWO RAIDERS DOWNED. j fAUSTRALIAN * N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION , & BBUTEB.J ; 1 The Press Bureau states ten enemy j aeroplanes approached Kent, near, Ramsgate, at ten in the morning. j The Flying Corps and Naval Air Ser-' vice.met and heavily engaged the raiders, preventing them from penetrating inland. _ 1 A small party of the raiders flow ■ to Margate and then turned homeward. | The remainder skirted the coast southward to Dover. 1 Bombs were dropped on Dover and Margate. Three persons were killed and two injured,\ only slight damage being done. Our anti-aircraft gun-fire downed two raiders.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1917, Page 3
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