In the Air.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 89, 21 March 1916, Page 5

In the Air.

RAID ON ZEEBRUGGE. AVIATION SHEDS BOMBED. . .. j■» f • - FLEET OF 65 MACHINES. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. / The High Commissioner reports: London, March 20 (1.55 p.m.) The Admiralty announces that in the early hours of this morning combined forces of approximately fifty British, French, and Belgian aeroplanes and seaplanes, accompanied by fifteen fighting machines.. left, and attacked tile German seaplane station at Zeebrugge and the aerodrome at Hourtade, near Zeebrugge, Considerable f been done.. average of two' lfliii,dred t !.poiiri > d^^ , o|j bombs. The .machines returned -Safe-v? ly, but a Belgian fcfliqersys yeportedl to have been seriously the British machines ' rtere;

ANOTHER ENGLISH RAID. < JfcV XT", —— ~ r SfSSasj <!VT WORK OF FOUR SEAPLA^E||^ 'fclli 1 'iMM Sif United Press Association, ,r, • , t.r?l>«TUw HIM. • London/March T 9. Four German seaplanes' bombed Dover and Ramsgate, killing ple and wounding thirty-one. A British seaplane pinmied, fand brought down a German seaplane, killing the observer. ' ' Kt '

AN OFFICIAL REPORT. \ * FIVE TOWNS VISITED. r r ‘ ! > FLIGHT-COMMANDER BONE’S SUC CESS Hit CHA&E. : J ’ -'i !.?-, V . The High Commissioner “reports from London on MfiY-ch'l9, 10.10 p.m.; Four German seaplanes flew over Dover, Deal, Ramsgate, Margate, and Westgate to-day. The casualties were: Killed, 3 men, 1 woman, and 5 children; injured, 17 men, 5 women, and 9 children. Altogether 48 bombs v*cre dropped. Material damage was done to several houses. Flight-Commander Bone, in a singleseater aeroplane, pursued one German seaplane for thirty miles out to sea, where, after a quarter of an hour’s action, the enemy was forced to descend, the observer being killed. {! Vglii. *V'' ' Ht 'FURTHER DETAItSf n -loci'?.’ rsc * ' 'tfy.i j,. :* m iJWM't I . [Uwit»d Pb*M Amooutiow.l \ L , fTwo seaplanes appeared over Dover fit 2 o’clock in the afternoon and dropped six florals flu thcl , flip-bor, and [thence bombed 1 thb town, one- proceeding to tho bombing of Deal. [j Two others appeared' at Ramsgate and bombed the town. One went north, a British aeroplane pursuing it wh,ile -the other went to Westgate, ,whbro several of our aeroplanes started ! 5n 'pursuit.

IS Altogether 48 bombs \vere> i|>ne falling on the Canadian ibt Ramsgate, causing Casualties. ptgecl and pvrpcked. ■ ?| Flight-Commandej- aeroplane, pursued a German seaplartd'for whirty miles seaward, of a quarter of an'' hour Jforced •the enemv to ..descend. .. He hi , the sl. f . J £ 5 .*’■ .ft J. X Jjrejrman machine many times aifd’kill;:ed the observer.

EXPERIENCES AT DOVER AND DEAL. • I THRILLING FIGHT BETWEEN AEROPLANES. MIRACULOUS ESCAPES. ‘!p '/■ ; \'\ } | , [United Phess .Association. J -j (Received "8.15 alirii) 1 London, March 20. The people of Dover 1 and Deal left their dinner tables and rushed out; where they witnessed a thrilling fight between aeroplanes, who wore twisting and fuming in all directions until they fled seawards. . t . , A bomb" wrecked "an orphanage where eighty children were huddled in the basement, but they had a miraculous escape and only one of the Sisters were injured. The saddest feature at Ramsgate was in connection with a party of children who w'ere going to Sunday School. A bomb dropped in their midst and killed four, wounded nine, and wrecked a motor which was nearby, killing the driver. , A bomb dropped in the yard of a cottage, blowing in the rear of the premises. The family of six, who had been Watching the raider, had just returned indoors, but all were unscathed. Bone is 27 years of age. He has been a lieutenant in the Navy for four years, and on a submarine for two years. Aviator Bone’s machine outstripped the others and returned unharmed.