THE AERIAL WAR.
ABORTIVE RAID ON KENTISH COAST. HAIG PUNISHES THE GERMANS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. CR-on r«r’s Received November 1, 10.30 n.m. LONDON, Oct. 31. Official; An aeroplane crossed the Kentish coast this morning but did not. penetrate inland. Point,' engaged by anti-aircraft guns it dropped bombs in the fields and made off, the remainder of the. bombs falling in the sea. General Haig reports that aeroplanes fired several thousand machine gun rounds at the enernv in the trenches and on (ho roads. Pnnihs were also dropped in the enemy’s billets at Roulers. The bombers re-attacked the railway station lines around Saarbracken and bomba were seen to burst, with good effect. All our machines returned. Twelve machines in the morning went further afield and attacked munition and gasworks at Permasent, twenty miles beyond Sanrbrueken with excellent results. All the machines returned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10122, 1 November 1917, Page 5
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