IN THE AIR.
! ANOTHER RAID. „ ON watering-places. - Received March 20, 9.45 p.m. London, March 19. Four florin,m seaplanes bionbed Dover and Ramsgate. killing nine people and wounding thirty-one. A British seaplane pursued and brought down a German seaplane, killing the observer. AN OFFICIAL REPORT. FIVE TOWNS VISITED. The ITigh Commissioner reports from London on March 19, 10.10 p.m.:— Four fiennan (seaplanes flew over Dover, Deal, Ramsgate, Margate, and VFestgate to-day. The casualties were: Killed, 3 men, 1 woman, and 9 children; Injured, 17 nien, 5 wenien, and 9 children. Altogether 48 were dropped. ■Material damage was done to several houses. Flight-Commander Bone, in a singleseater aeroplane, pursued one German seaplane for thirty miles out to sea, where, after a quarter of an hour's action, the enemy was forced to descend, the observer being killed.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19160321.2.23.11
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1916, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
134IN THE AIR. Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1916, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in