GERMAN ATTACK CHECKED.
BALLOONS BREAIi ADRIFT.
PARIS, May 7. A communique states 1 : After an intense'bombardmen^.the Germans on Saturday evening attacked southward
of Lihons. Our curtain of fire dispers-
Ed them before they reached our en- '- ' tanglements. There was a night-long and violent bombardment in the Verdun region.
Twenty captive balloons broke their moorings during a storm on Friday. Most*'of the observers landed 'by means of parachutes. iSonie were carried into the enemy zone.
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Northern Advocate, 8 May 1916, Page 3
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