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1915 - 1031.PDF
DECEMBER 17, 1915. t,!CRAFT AN° THE WAR. 0Hjg WRITING to the Mornine Post from the n u L TT quarters, Mr. H. F. Prevost Battersby said - K(*d- air service, and that they have heen SrUtinT^T ^ greatly increased power, ot unusual carrying capa^v ™?™\? of prolonged and extremely rapid flight It k of " *' ^le to construct such an airVt and" quite"not? to l™ ^ handling it, and, so far. on this front there ha been nn^ " observation of any of these particular machinesto wlid\STS man papers have of late been making guarded but « ,iT,„t , ence; but at least one machine hJ l^Totri o?.Xfiy novel pattern which apparently was out for trial purLse as £ made off at the first hint of an opponent, and showed in^etir'emen a quite remarkable turn of speed. It has not since reappeared but that, in the weather we have been enduring-strong outh! westerly gales and ram-clouds that allow no range of vis,on-Ts not remarkable. Thus in the matter of aircraft we have sufficien evidence to warrant the assumption that the enemy is taking every means rr, his power to secure that superiority overhead which ceased to be his in the early days of the war. Such determined endeavours the effects of which cannot be felt for some months until weather with more opportunities for the airman shall have returned to us, can hardly be regarded as evidence of any desire for immediate peace." ' A message from Renter's special correspondent at the Dardanelles, dated December 3rd, contained the follow ing:— "Apparently the severe weather, combined with our aeroplane and ships' bombardments, are considerably hampering the enemy's lines of communication. Recently the Turkish artillery has been more active, but the bombardment of one section of our trenches for nearly two hours was not followed by any attack." The Geneva correspondent of the Temps learns that the Austrian naval force which bombarded Stn Giovanni di Medua on December 4th was accompanied by two aeroplanes. A Reuter message from Zurich, dated December roth, stated :— "A Russian aeroplane dropped a bomb in the vicinity 01 Czernowitr station on Tuesday afternoon." From Rome on December 10th Reuter received the following message:— " Four enemy airmen appeared over Ancona this afternoon and dropped bombs, killing two persons and wounding some others. No damage was done to property." The Times correspondent at the British Headquarters, writing under date of December 1 ith, said :— " There was another British air raid last Wednesday on Mirau- mont, north-east of Albert. Although a 60-mile gale wa* raging, further damage was dotu to the stores and buildings of this important supply depot, which, it will be recalled, was bombed by our machines on November 30th.'' In a message from Boulogne, dated December nth, regarding a bombardment by British warships of the Belgian coast, the Daily Ttlegraph correspondent said:— " A German aviator made an attempt to fly over our ships, but he was forced to return to his hangar, near (>>tend, before he had got halfway. As soon as the machine alighted, and had been placed in its shed, a number of shells hit the place, and completely destroyed it and its precious contents. " A number of small anti-aircraft guns were destroyed by the British shell-fire, and three large guns were hit and put out of action." SOMEWHERE WITH THE GALLIPOLI EXPEDITION.-A British seaplane just after It. return from a reconnaissance. 995
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