In the Air.
ALLIED SQUADRON ON THE WING. BOMBING THE RAILWAYS. The High Commissioner reports:— London, April 17 (5.20 p.m.) In aviation, last night, one of our squadrons, consisting of nine aeroplanes, in spite of an intense mist, carried out an important operation, bombarding the region of Conflans-Pagny-Aranville-Roebach. The following bombs were thrown: Twelve on the railway station at Conflans, sixteen on Roebach factories, eight on Aranville railway station, eleven on the. railways at Pagny and Ars-sur-Meurthe. On Saturday night one of our gun aeroplanes at a height of 300 feet attacked in the North Sea an enemy ship, upon which it fired sixteen shells, of which the larger number took effect.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 13, 18 April 1916, Page 5
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112In the Air. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 13, 18 April 1916, Page 5
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