WAR IN THE AIR.
ENEMY AERODROMES- BOMBED.
BATTLE- IN THE AIR.
FIVE BRITISH AGAINST. 20 GERMANS.
(Received October 23\9.35 a.m.) -.-,-■' LONDON, Ocfc'2S, l -< The Admiralty reports : —-JSTaval aircraft, ye'sterdx^y afternoon, bombed! Vlissegheau • nnd Houttaf o aerodrome^; ? ' The bombs appeared ' feo ' bursfr accu-
rately. Enemy aircraft attacked our bombers, all of wiioro returned. Five of oiu- scouts, during an offensive recomuubsance, engaged 30 hostile scouts. They destroyed two and drove down two. One of qnr pilots is miss-
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9126, 23 October 1917, Page 5
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