In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 9 October 1916, Page 5

In the Air

LIEUTENANT BRANDON, D.S.O. INVESTITURE BY THE KING. ■ i | :' ; '/ '""' ' Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.15 a.m) Loudon, October 8. The King at Buckingham Palace invested Lieutenant Brandon with the D.S.O.

SEAPLANES BOMB BULGARIAN COAST. Press Association-—Copyright, Austra. lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Receved 9.35 a.m.) ~. . , London, October 8. An Admiralty official message states that seaplanes from the 13th to the 22nd Septeml>er, made a series of attacks on the Bulgarian coast. EXCUSE FOR COURT-MARTIAL. THE USE OF "TRACER" BULLETS. BRITISH ENTER PROTEST. 1 Press Association—Copyright. Renter's Telegrams (Received 10.25 a.m.) London, October 8. Two British naval airmen who fell into the Gorman lines are to be court-martialled because "tracer" bullets were ' found in their possession.. These are used by f\\\ belligerent machine gunners to eoircet the aim. The British Government, through the American Embassy, hub protested, intimating that tracer bullets were found in the Zeppelin which Was downed in Essex. Correspondents emphasise that daring British airmen are operating on the German rear. An attack on the Douai-Lille lmo disorganised the sending of reinforcements to the Somme. Demoralisation was caused by their.mere approach. The low flying of the Britishers has been the subject of a German divisional order.