RAIDING GERMANY
AD2 FORCES' GREAT RECORD
TOTAL OF 249 RAIDS MADE.
(AUS. AND N.Z. CABLB ASSN. AND REDTBK.)
(Received 1 September 16, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, 15th September.
Twenty-one important German towns were bombed ,by the independent Air Force in August, including the following, each of which, was attacked three times :—The factories and railways at Frankfort, the chemical factories at Mannheim, the railways at Metz-Sablon, Saarbourg, and Thionvitfe, and the railways and workshops at Treves. Other towns bombed once were Battenbourg, Burbach, Coblentz, Cologne, Darmstadt, Dillingen, Duren, Ehrange,- Karlsruhe, Luxembourg, Offenburg, Remillyj Rombach, Saaralbe, and VoMngen. Over a hundred tons of bombs were dropped during the past three' months. A total of 249 raids have been made in Germany, and 247 tons of bombs dropped. The German territory thus brought into the war-zone, represents a belt of the Rhine valley, approximately 250 miles long.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1918, Page 8
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