REMARKABLE ESCAPES

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 140, 13 June 1918, Page 7

REMARKABLE ESCAPES

GERMAN FIGHTS GERMAN.

(Received June 13, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 12th June.

Mr. Percival Phillips writes: The British airmen were active in tho French zone between Montdfdier and Noyon, firing on the infantry with machine-guns mid bombing concentration depots and

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camps. On Sunday night the British dropped over 300 bombs around Roye and. fired 30,000 rounds. Two of our aviators had h remarkable escape, after being brought down by anti-airci^ift guns behind the German lines. Tliey had many exciting adventures in the enemy's front trenches and No-Man's Land. The observer was stunned by the' fall, but the pilot revived him, and botK walked towards the French lines, when they stumbled on a German heavy battery in action, and the aviators were forced to lie in a hedge all day. Eventually they swam a river and reached a French post, after hairbreath escapes among German sentries, -who frequently challenged them and fired at them. On another occasion a German' decoy machine signalled the approach of a British patrol. Six German albatross machines swooped to the attack, .and simultaneously another six albatrosses appeared, confusing the first batch, who thought them British. A general dogfight ensued, during which the British aviators neatly brought down the German decoy, and also two albatrosses. They then withdrew, leaving the remaining albatrosses^ fighting among themselves.