In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 94, 23 April 1915, Page 5

In the Air

RAIDS ON THE ENEMY. fONITBU PBKMB AfflßOOliTinN. 1 Paris, April 22. Official: Our aeroplanes au VVoevre bombed General von Strantz's headquarters and a number of convoys. London, April '22. A bolt! and successful attempt was made on the enemy's airship shed at Ghent. The damage done must have been considerable, FRENCH PILOT'S PLUCK. SUCCESSFUL BUT EXCITINC FLIGHT. (Received «.•">! a.m.) ]\iris, April 22. Le Petit Journal states that a, French pilot and observer J bombed a corner oi the Belgian coast, (where there are nearly one hundred ) anti-craft guns. They rose b'HOO fecc in a storm of shot and shell lor the the return journey. ■ A shot smashed the axle of, the front wheels and passed through the ear, cutting olf the pilot's foot. The exploding shell nearly made them turn turtle, the machine compass dropping out. The ! pilot refused the observer's assistance. He navigated for fifteen miles and landed safely in the French lines o.i one pair of wheels, and I ben crawled 'out through the shell hole. Later, he fainted. Moth men have been decorated.