BOMBS DROPPED AT ESSEN
FRENCH AIR-RAIDERS' LONG JOURNEY
(Reuters Telegram.) PARIS, 25th. September. A French official communique states : There is nothing important to report, apart from artillery duels south of the Somme and east of the Meuse. two French aeroplanes dropped bombs on Essen (the Krupp ironworks town) and returned safely, after a flight of five hundred miles. Seven aeroplanes dropped fifty bombs oh the German war factories at Rombach and Thionville. ENEMY'S OFFICIAL REPORT. (Published in The Times.) LONDON, 24th September. A German official communique states : On the Somme fighting is again in full swing. The Allies' attacks at. Courcelette, Rancourt, and Bouchavesnes failed. We brought down twenty-four aeroplanes, of which twenty were accounted for on the Somme. The .communique admits the loss of nine German machines./
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 7
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