AN AERIAL ARMADA.
LIKE NEW CONSTELLATIONS.
(Received 5.5 p.m.)
LONDON, Oct. 12
Reuters correspondent at American Headquarters writing on the 11th says: "I witnessed a magnificent spectacle yesterday. The Germans were reported to be massing for a counter-attack east of the Meuse. Two hundred of our bombing machines were despatched with 32 tons of bombs, also 100 chasers and 50 triplanes, They covered the entire sky, groups of a dozen each flying in v-shaped formation, the rays of the sun turning them into flashes of silver till the entire heaven sparkled with its new constellations. They crossed the river and in the face of their bombing the enemy counter-attack melted away. Twelve German planes which were unhappy enough to meet that mighty armada were sent crashing to the ground."—Reuter.
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Northern Advocate, 14 October 1918, Page 3
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