CONSTANTINOPLE AIRRAID
ALL AVIATORS SAFE
OFFICIAL REPORT.
■ 'LONDON, loth April, The Press Bureau reports: Three naval aeroplanes on Friday evening raided Constantinople, and dropped bombs on the Zeitonlik powder factory and aeroplane hangars; another bombed the railway station at Adrianople.
Squadron-Commander Smyth I'iggott and Flight-Lieutenants Satory, Dickinson, and Barnalo participated. All returned safely.
The flight to Constantinople and back was over three hundred miles.. There was fine weather at the start, but adverse conditions supervened later, with rain, windj: and thunderstorms.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 92, 18 April 1916, Page 7
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