Aerial Warfare

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 246, 26 March 1915, Page 5

Aerial Warfare

BOMB-DROPPING AT SEA.

STEAMER MAKES HER ESCAPE."

London, March 24. A Taube dropped four bombs on the steamer Teal in the North Sea, and fired twenty rounds from a machinegun, also showering steel darts. The mate zig-zagged until the airman Jad exhausted his 'ammunition, and the Teal was practically unharmed.

BOMBS- DROPPED NEAR STEAMER. London, March 24. A Gennan aeroplane repeatedly failed in an attempt to drop bombs on tin steamer Pandion in the Channel. Fiv< bombs fell within fifteen feet of her. SUBMARINES DAMAGED BY BRITISH AIRMEN.

London, March 24.

Fiv.. aeroplane* left Dunkirk. A nvst compelled tn'o to return. The others o!i-.iTVf,i fivt; submarines on the slips and dropped eight bombs, and it is hclicvil did considerable damage to the works. Lieutenant Crosslcy descended fa Holland, owing to engine trouble. Official. —British airmen damaged two submarines at Hoboken and ignited the works.

DARING AND SUCCESSFUL,

WELL-INFORMED AVIATORS.

ONE SUBMARINE DESTROYED.

Received March 20, 1.10 a.m. London, March 25.

When the British airmen were sighted, fire was opened on them from all parts of Antwerp. The noise was terrific. The whole population watched the aviators, who kept an unswerving course. Many shrapnel hurst below them scathlessly. Then each swooped down to within a hundred yards of the small dock at Hoboken, their bombs completely destroying a submarine and seriously damaging another. The former had been ingeniously concealed under a specially built deck and the superstructure of a steamboat.

MORE SUCCESSES IN BELGIUM.

Received March 26, 1.30 a.m.

Amsterdam, March 25.

Allied airmen bombed the Gits aviation ground near Roulers. Some soldiers were wounded, and sheds damag-

An airman's bomb killed and wounded a number of soldiers near Bruge3.

DARING AIRMEN.

Wellington, March 2.">. The High Commissioner reports, uniL'r date London, March 24: The Admiralty announces that Wing Commander Longmore reports that a successful air attack was conducted this morning by five machines from the Dun-, kirk squadron on German submarines bom" constructed at Hoboken, Antwerp. Two pilots had to return, owing to fie thick weather. Squadron Commander Ivor T. Courtney and Fight Commander 11. Roshcr reached the objective, and, planing down to a thousand feet, dropped four bombs each on the submarines. It is believed considerable damage wa-j done, both to the works and the two submarine;. The works were observed to be on fire. Five submarines were observed on the slip. Flight Lieutenant B. Crossley-Meates was obliged by engine trouble to descend in Holland. Owing to thp mist, the. pilots experienced considerable difficulty in finding their way to the submarines. There was beavv gun fire while delivering the attack.