GREAT AIRMEN.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1918, Page 3

GREAT AIRMEN.

STIRRING EPISODES. i [per PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. ] r (Received This Day nt 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, Aug 21. s Mr. Gilmonr describes two darinp i air raids carried out by largo squadrous well behind the Gorman lines, in - which Australian fliers took ft prornin- ? ont part. He says the leader, on • i reaching the objective, dived and ali most entered the door of a big aoroi dl'-Gmc. He counted eight machines . inside. While almost touching the ground, the airman dropped a couple of bombs, directly hitting, tho hangar. A fire broke out and quickly spread to j adjacent canvas aeroplane sheds, j Four other planes, following their ; leader, began machine-gunning and bombing. An indescribable panic followed, many Germans fleeing, pursued by low-flying machines. | The raiders remained over the aeroj drome for. thirty-five minutes and soon j ' note a sign of life remained, while a thick smoke was rising from the burning hangars, workshops and airmen's quarters. Then the raiders scattered following traffic along the roads and bombing everything visible till their supplies of bombs were exhausted. i In a second raid the squadron burned j eight hangars and it is believed they ! destroyed fifty machines. Tho raiders! keeping at a low altitude enme under j the direct fire of field guns, at a range I of eight hundred feet. j