The Western Front

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1915, Page 7

The Western Front

MIRACLE IN THE AIR. FRENCH AVIATOR'S EXPERIENCE. BOMBS ON A RAILWAY. • Received June 25, 11.30 p.m. Paris, June 25. A French aviator and a mechanic were ordered to bombard the railway and destroy a German convoy. The aviator had discharged three bombs when two ■German armored trains appeared and opened fire and hit the aviator, wiio fainted with a useless leg dangling in the aeroplane's wires and hampering its movements. The mechanic seized the levers, supporting his comrade, and in the meanwhile the aeroplane was sailing down swiftly in corkscrew fashion. The Germans waited, sure of their prey, when they were astonished to see the mechanic regain control of the machine and shoot upwards. The Germans reopened Arc, but the .aeroplane headed for the French line's. Ten minutes later the captain recovered consciousness and threw the two remaining bombs upon the trains of munitions. He completely executed his mission before returning". FIGHTING AT ARRAS. * NUNS AND NURSES KILLED. Paris, June 24. . A communique states that the enemy bombarded Arras. One point particularly shelled was the ambulance of the Holy Sacraments, by which, nuns and nurses were killed. The authorities at Marseilles seized 3844 newly landed bales of silk, cotton and hemp belonging to a German firm at Zurich. Havre, June 24. A force in the Belgian Congo captured a German station at Kissegries, northeastward of Kivu, after destroying an adjacent fortress.