65 ALLIED 'PLANES RAID GERMAN AIR BASE.
FOUR TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE TO EKEMY'S AERODROME. v 0f Cable.—Frew Association.—Copyright.) Tie High Commissioner reports under date of London, March 20:— The Admiralty announces that in the early hours of this morning cornlined forces of approximately fifty British, French, and Belgian aeroplanes and eeaplanes, accompanied by fifteen fighting machines, left and attacked the German Beaplane station at Zeebrugge and the aerodrome at Hourtade, near .Zeebrugge. Considerable damage appears to have been done. The raiding machines averaged 200 pounds of bomks. All returned safely, though one Belgian officer is reported seriously wounded. All the British machines were navaL j t
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 69, 21 March 1916, Page 5
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