In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 99, 27 August 1915, Page 5

In the Air

RAID ON GERMANY.

SIXTY-TWO AEROPLANES EN- ] CACED. MUNITION FACTORY BOMBED. Uimitn Peem Association. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Paris, August 20. A communique states: Sixty-two aeroplanes flew over the Dillingen arniourpjlate and shell factory northward or Sarre Louis, and threw with precision over one hundred and fifty bombs, including thirty of large calibre. AEROPLANE RAID ON GERMANY The High Commissioner reports:— London, August 20 (4.30 p.m.) On Wednesday, a French airman bombed the station at Offenboiirg, an important junction in Baden Grand Duchy. Four groups of sixty aeroplanes flew over furnaces at Dillingen, north of Sarre Louis, where shells and steel plates are made. One hundred and twenty bombs were dropped with precision, thirty being of the largest calibre.

AEROPLANIST'S FEAT.

CERMAN SUBMARINE BOMBED AND DESTROYED OFF OSTEND. (Received 9.10 a.m.) London. August 20. Squadron Commander Bigsworth, in an aeroplane, bombed and destroyed single-handed a German off Ostein! to-day. SUNKEN SUBMARINE LOCATED.

United Press Association. (Received 12 p.m.) j «'M. j";',^London. August (26. The ,AdUsrii)|,w announces that the attacked by Bigsworth was completely.wrecked and sank. It is not the Admiralty's practice to announce the Josses of .Germwi subma'.tbiwgb'. i ffls llave been, but only in eases where the e'neiny'liavf. "«» ' dti'ier' s'ouiie of inrorrhation 3 Us 'to thV'time| arid .place at wliich' they :l oociiVi ! ed;' This''brilliant feat 'performed 'in 'the'iriOnediate neighbourhood of the coasts occupied bv the enemy.

A German destroyer has located the position of the sunken submarine.