RHINE TOWNS BOMBED.
GOOD RESDXTS OBSERVED. LONDON, August 27. The !Air Ministry reports: "On Saturday night we successfully attacked the railway junction at Frankfort, on the Maine, a few miles above its junction •with the Khine, and the chemical factories at Mannheim, on the Rhine, in tbc Grand Duchy of Baden, with very good results at Frankfort. We dropped two tons of bombs on the factories at Mannheim, causing firea and explosions. Our machines flew through heavy thunderstorms. Other machines dropped four tons of bombs on hostile aerodromes with good results. ATI our machines returned." (A. and N.Z. and Eeuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 205, 28 August 1918, Page 5
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