AIR RAID ON GERMAN MUNITIONS CENTRE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2552, 28 August 1915, Page 5

AIR RAID ON GERMAN MUNITIONS CENTRE

bombs well Placed BRITISH AIRMAN SINKS A GERMAN : • SUBMARINE ■■■■; •. By Tclcsrajl—Press Association—Copyright' •The High Commissioner reports:— London, August 26, '4.30 p.m. "On Wednesday French airmen bombed the railway station at Offenbourg, an important junction in the Baden Graad Duchy. . _ "Four groups, of sixty aeroplanes, flow over the furnaces at Dillingen, north of Sarre Louis, where shells and stedl plates are made. One hundred, and twenty bombs were dropped with precision), thirty being of the largest calibre."FRENCH OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE, (Rec. August 27, 8.40 p.m.) Paris, 'August 27. "There has been a violent bombardjnent of Reims,, and heavy petard and grenade fighting over the whole of the Argomie front. "Our aeroplaneson Wednesday bomied the enemy's cantonments at Dairues and Bausliant, causing a fire, , and alsio the railway stations and bivouacs at Grand Pre Chatel, Cernay, Fieviles, this aviation park at Vitry, and the railway station at Boisleux. ... "A combined bombardment by Anglb-Frencli and. Belgian military aeroplanes and also British naval aeroplanes causejd several fires in the forest of Houihulet. "A French air squadron, dropped Wenty-seven shells on the railway station at Noyon."- ' : ■ GERMAN VERSIfON OF THE RAID, v " (Rec. August 27, 3.13 p.m.) London, August 26 f Amsterdam telegrams state that according to a German comnnmiquo two hostile air squadrons'bombed the valley above and below Saar Louis. Several persons were'killed or wounded, but the material damage done was unimportant. Tho squadrons were successfully attacked by our airmen, and lost four machines. The pilot and observer in :one instance were killed and tho occupants of another made prisoners. GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK AT OSTEND BRILLIANT FEAT BY BRITISH.AIRMAN, . : TJio High.Commissioner reports 1 ;:—. London, August 26, 7.10 p.m. ■" "Tlie Admiralty announces that Squadron-Commander Bigsworth this morn, ing destroyed, single-handed, a German submarino at Ostend, with , bombs from his aeroplane." 1 , "Vv '• ~~ .' THE ADMIRALTY'S POLICY OF SILENCE. ■ I ' ' S :■ ' ' ' * • London, August 26. The Admiralty announces that the submarine attacked with bombs by Squadron-Commander Bigsworth, oft Ostend, was completely wrecked and sank. . It is not tlie Admiralty's practice to aunounce losses of German submarines,"important thougli they have been, in cases where tho enemy lias not any bther source of information of the time and place where they have occurred. ' This brilliant feat, however, was performed in the immediate neighbourhood of the coasts occupied by the enemy, and a German destroyer located the position of.tho sunken submarine. THE BRITISH BOMBARDMENT OF ZEEBRUGGE , \ SOME GERMAN.. SUBMARINES DESTROYED. . . • " ' (Rec August 27, 6 p.m.) Amsterdam, August 261 The Dutch' n&ivspapar, "Tijd," states that great numbers of soldiers were killed by the British bombardment of Zeebrugge. Ninety, severely wounded, have been brought to Ghent. * . Material damago was doits to the great submarine shed also, and some of the submarines wei'o completely destroyed. v ; THE SINKING OF THE GERMAN TORPEDb-BOAT. / \: _ _ Paris, August 26. , Details of the sinking of the German torpedo-boat off Ostend by a French destroyer show that when she was sighted she was immediately engaged. The French boat sent a wireless message for assistance, as the German boat had heavier guns. ' , ' ' , The German boat fled to T^tliin 'range of the Ostend guns, where she .was torpedoed. : The French sailors began rescue work, but were forced to abandon about 200 (?) men because the shore-guns opened fire on them. • BELGIAN RAILWAY TRACK FOR EASTERN FRONT.' . ' (Rec. August 27, 6 p.m.) \ _ Amsterdam, August 26. Tlie Germans have officially announced that eiglit hundred kilometres (over 900 miles) of Belgian railroads will be broken up and sent to the Eastern front. Havre, August 26. In order to expedite progress on the East'front, Germany has stolen sleepers from the Belgian railways. The Belgians : are protesting that this is another breach of The Hague Convention. ■