ZEPPELIN FIRED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 36, 12 February 1916, Page 5

ZEPPELIN FIRED.

.AIRMAN'S THRILLING FLIGHT.. A Graphic account of the manner in which Lieutenant Redford 11. Mulloch, a former science-student at McGill University, flew to Brussels and bombed the murder-craft sheds there is furnished in a letter recently received in Ottawa from Major McKelvey Bell, of the Canadian Army Medical Service.

"I saw one of the Canadian flyingmen, Lieutenant Mulloch, of Peterborough, who is attached to the Naival Flying Corps," writes Major Bell. f'He has just come back from a flight 'to Brussels.

J "He started off in mist and rain and flew more than a mile high, I above the clouds, and he said that ( every time he came down a little to f see where he war, the Germans open-

ed fire on him, and fired so accurately that he had great difficulty in dodging the shells.

"After he had been travelling nearly an hour and a-half he came down 'through the clouds, and below him •was a great beautiful city, the most city he had ever seen, with 'wide streets and splendid buildings. "He knew where the Germans had their aerodromes, and he made direct for one of them. It was a large building painted in green and red and yellow, so that from a height it looked like the ground. He swooped down towards it, and the Germans

opened fire en him with their guns, so that the shells burst ill around him. "Some of the shells were of a new type, Avhich sent thousands of little balls of fire at him, with the idea, he thinks, of setting his-aerop'ane on fire. "He sailed through them all and dropped a bomb en the building, then made another circle and dropped another one, and then another, and all the time bullets were passing him. "One bullet went through the machine, but did not hit him. Then hethrew otit more bombs and turned for home. The Zeppelin shed was on fire by this time.

."The rain was driving so hard that every time he put his head out to see where he was it cut his face, and he could not see where he was going. He had only enough gaso'ene left to carry him straight home, and if he made a mistake he would have descended into the German lines. "He said that every time he came clown a little to see where he was the Germans met him with showers of shrapnel, and it was very dangerous to come down closer than a mile from the earth.

"After a long while ho came down a little, and there wis no firing, so he concluded he must be over France. He turned towards the coast, and when he got there, found himself almost home."

Major Bell adds that Lieutenant. 'Mulloch left Ottawa as. a sergeantMajcr in the Ist Artillery Brigade.