OUR AIRMEN.
SUCCESS AT ST. QUENTIN"
PARIS, August 18. ' A .German prisoner sriyes details of tho P>ritish aeroplane raid on St. .Qneniin, S-E of Peronn«, at the end of July. While' 'two .German battalions wore awaiting entrainmenfc aviators' bombs fell on the ammunition shed. There was a terrible explosion. ' Sixty waggons lying at the station ignited, and also exploded and destroyed a soldiers' train. The battalion* took panic and fled. A hundred 'and eighty were, killed or wounded.
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Evening Star, Issue 16197, 19 August 1916, Page 5
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78OUR AIRMEN. Evening Star, Issue 16197, 19 August 1916, Page 5
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