IN THE AIR.
RAID BY A SEAPLANE. • A HURRIED VISIT, London, March 5. A seaplane at dusk, when it was misty, dropped four explosive bombs and slightly damaged two house.?, killing a baby. It dropped six other bombs elsewhere, but did not venture beyond 500 yards inland and disappeared in two siinutes.
AIRMEN BUSY IN FLANDERS. OFFICIAL REPORTS. London, March 2. Sir Douglas Haig reports twenty air encounters yesterday. One of cur Machines did not return. Our infantry ?«d machine-guns dispersed a jar'y of the enemy who attempted to advr.noe in the night-time under '•over cf s bombardment. The north zen* h qi">'et today, but there is. considerable artillery activity at Ypres. Peris, March 2. r A communique says: Onr artillery, b conjunction with the British artillery, effectively bombarded the enemy trenches south-east of Boesinghe. London, March 2. 'A German eo»u»uni»|ue says: W» forced a British biplane to descend and took the occupants prisoner. We *>r«ught down two French biplanes at Soissous.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1916, Page 5
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162IN THE AIR. Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1916, Page 5
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