TRANSPORT BY SEAPLANE.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1915, Page 6

TRANSPORT BY SEAPLANE.

BRITISH AIRMAN'S FEAT IN THE DARDANELLES. Mitylene, August 21. An exploit comparable in the iffipoi'ttance of its results, if not in the ■oaring of its execution, with that of Flight SubLieutenant Warneford, V.0., was, I learn, performed on August 12 by Flight-Lieu-tenant Edmonds in the Dardanelles.

While flying over the straits in a seaplane he sighted a Turkish transport, carrying troops. Making straight for his quarry, he descended low enough to be able to drop a heavy bomb full on the dekk of the vessel. The resulting explosion split up the transport, which perished, with, it is believed, all the troops on board. This is the most remarkable feat yet achieved by the seaplane. Since the outbreak of war no airman has succeeded in sinking a military vessel laden with troops. A week or two back, however, a French airman dropped bombs close to, and is believed to have damaged, if not actually destroyed, the Austrian submarine U'll in the Adriatic. So far the most striking aerial feat of the war has been Flight Sub-L!eutenant Warneford's destruction of the Zeppelin near Ghent.