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(/LIGHT aircraft batteries, it waslorced to make off without dropping any projectiles." Paris, September 25/A. Afternoon. " Enemy aeroplanes at about 8.30 p.m. yesterday dropped about ten bombs in the region of Luneville. A woman was slightly wounded, the material damage done being insig nificant. Yesterday an enemy machine attacked by one of ours fell in a disabled condition north of Miserey. Three other machines were seriously damaged and were obliged to land. Last night 12 of our machines dropped 98 bombs on the village and station of Guiscard. On the same night seven of our machines dropped 50 bombs on the factories of Thion- villc and Rom bach (Cierman Lorraine) and on the railway station of Audun le Roman. A fire was seen to break out ;it Kuiubach owing to the bombardment." Paris, September 2$th. Evening. " During the night of September 24th and 25th a group of our aeroplanes dropped 150 bombs on the stations of Ham, Hombleux, Manancourt and the aviation ground of Vraignes." Russian. Petrograd, September 21st. " Our battle aeroplanes made a raid over the region of Lokachi, Rogovichi, and Markorichi, and successfully dropped bombs on the enemy wagons and bivouacs. One of the enemy machines, having engaged us in fight, was injured, and fell steeply down." Italian. Rome, September 23rd. v " Yesterday evening towards sunset a squadron of Italian seaplanes and aeroplanes successfully bombarded the enemy batteries and fortifications at the torpedo station of Panta Salvore. All the machines returned safely to their base. Hostile aeroplanes dropped bombs on Monte Vecchio, Maggiore (Vicenza), and in the district of Misurina (Upper Ansici) without doing any damage." Pome, September 25M. " Last night one of our airships, having eluded the enemy's searchlights, dropped bombs on the railway stations Dotter- gliano and Scoppo, on the Carso. The airship returned safely." Roumanian. Bucharest, September iSth. " An enemy aeroplane dropped bombs on the town of Turnu Severin." Bucharest, September 20th. " Enemy aeroplanes dropped bombs on the town of Con- stantza, where no one was injured, and on Piatra-Neamtu, where a child of six was injured." Bucharest, September 22nd. " Enemy aeroplanes in air attacks dropped bombs on Czernavoda, killing seven men, including two soldiers, and injuring several of the inhabitants. A number of animals wen- also killed and three houses destroyed." German. Berlin, September 22nd. " German seaplanes successfully attacked with bombs, two Russian aeroplane mother ships, which, conducted by a cruiser, were bringing several destroyers and aeroplanes to the Bulgarian coast for an attack near Varna. The enemy naval forces were obliged to beat a rapid retreat, pursued by our seaplanes, which later successfully attacked an enemy transport steamer at Constanza and dropped bombs on SEPTEMBER 28, 1916. railway lines in the Northern Dobrudsha. All our aeroplanes, in spite of very heavy firing, returned undamaged." [// was officially stated that the Admiralty had no confirmation of these statements.'] Berlin, September 23rd. " In aerial fighting north of the Somme we shot down eleven enemy machines." Berlin, September 24th. " On the entire Front there has been considerable aerial activity', including numerous aerial battles over our lines and the lines of the enemy, which were favourable to us. " We shot down 24 machines, 20 of which were brought down in the Somme region. We lost six machines. " Late in the evening of September 22nd bombs were dropped on Mannheim (on the Rhine). One person was killed and some material damage was done. Enemy aviators also several times attacked the districts behind our lines. In Lille six civilians amongst others were killed and 12 houses were damaged. "In an air attack yesterday in the region of Essen one child was killed and others wounded. The material damage was insignificant." Essen, September 24th. " The General in command at Miinster reports that on Sunday, about three in the afternoon, several enemy airmen appeared over a suburb of Essen. Within a minute several small bombs were dropeped in the centre of the town. Most of them caused no damage. Fires did not break out any where. Unhappily several children at play were injured by the bombs. After throwing bombs from a very great height the airmen disappeared in a bank of cloud." Berlin, September 25/A. " in yesterday's numerous aerial engagements we shot down nine "aeroplanes. Our anti-aircraft guns have brought down four aviators during the last few days. Six citizens were killed and 28 seriously wounded by an enemy bomb attack on Lens." " Balkan Theatre.—The fortress of Bucharest was bom barded by one of our airships." Austrian. Vienna, September 23rd. " A squadron of enemy naval aeroplanes ineffectively dropped a number of bombs near the Punta Salvore (south west of Pirano)." Turkish. Constantinople, September 23rd. " A Turkish aeroplane dropped 10 bombs on the armoured ship ' Empress Mary ' and some destroyers. The ' Empress Mary ' was observed to be hit several times." Constantinople, September 25/A. " Gallipoli.—We prevented a reconnaissance by an enemy aeroplane on the Gallipoli Peninsula." Bulgarian. Sofia, September 21 si. " German aeroplanes attacked with success the enemy's railway line near Cernavoda, and caused great damage. " A Russian squadron comprising twenty fighting units bombarded without success the heights to the north and east of the village of Pervelia. " Seaplanes frustrated an attack by hostile seaplanes on Varna." Sofia, September 22nd. " German aeroplanes successfully bombarded the Danube bridge at Cernavoda and enemy camps near the villages of Cochirleni and Ivrinez." From Other Sources. Writing from Petrograd on September 14th, Reuter's correspondent states :— " A squadron of four Russian giant aeroplanes of the Ilya- Murometz type bombarded the German seaplane station on Lake Angern, in the Gulf of Riga. Seventeen seaplanes of v. 1 nous sizes and models were discerned. The Russians dropped 73 bombs, of a total weight of 62 poods (about 1 ton). The sheds were soon concealed in smoke and flames. Eight enemy seaplanes attacked the Russian machines, but were speedily put to flight by machine-gun fire. As the result of the bombing and the air fight not fewer than eight enemy machines were destroyed or put out of action. The Russians returned safely, notwithstanding a hail of incendiary shells from anti-aircraft guns. On a previous occasion one Ilya- Murometz with a crew of five routed seven attacking German seaplanes." Mr. W. Beach Thomas, writing to the Daily Mail from the Somme front on September 16th, in connection with the advance in which the new armoured motor cars played such a big part, states :— " Such a battle has too many parts to suffer description. The battle in the air has perhaps never been equalled. The prisoner, who complained of the ' Tanks,' concluded by saying that they were aiiyway better than the aeroplanes. How many fights there were no one knows. I believe we destroyed more than the 13 enemy planes officially recorded. The enemy kite balloons bob up and down in terror after the havoc in their ranks. " Village after village just behind the lines was bombed, and to complete the work the airmen came down low enough almost to stroke the back of the ' Tanks,' quite low enough to empty their bullet-drams at the enemy's infantry. The 842
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