BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 16 October 1914, Page 5

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

A FIGHT IN THE AIR.

FIERCE FIGHTING AT ROVE

A DOZEN CAPTURES AND RE-

CAPTURES

DISEASE AMONG GERMAN

TROOPS

AN OUTBREAK OF TYPHUS.

(Received Oct. 16, 10.30 a.m.)

PARIS, Oct. 15

A Taube aeroplane flew over St. i Omer on Monday and,dropped bombs, j killing two and wounding six civilians. ' Five French aeroplanes pursued and | surrounded the Taube, and French j aviators with their revolvers killed a mechanic and wounded a German avia-J tor. Finally the aeroplane fell riddled with shot. For three weeks Roye was the scene of the -fiercest hand-to-hand encounters. The town and surrounding villages were taken and re-taken at least a dozen times. When the French recaptured Roye ' for the twelfth time they surprised a German camp among low wooded hills, which was attacked in the half light of dawn. The Germans in their confusion were unable to locate the direction of the attack, with the result that a thousand of a cavalry battalion and infantry were taken prisoners. Typhus has broken out iri the Ger man lines northward of Soissons.