WAR IN THE AIR.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13966, 24 August 1917, Page 6

WAR IN THE AIR.

. ANOTHER AEROPLANE RAID. ENGLISH COASTAL TOWNS : BOMBED. } . ~/ TWO RAIDERS BteOUGHT DOWN; y... (Australian and Reuter.) •i - LONDON, August 22. 1 The . Press Bureau says that ten enemy aeroplanes' approached Kent near Ramsgate at ton this morning. The Flying Corps and ; Naval Air Service met and- heavily engage;! the raiders, preventing them penetrating inland. A small party of raiders flow to Margate, and 1 then turned homeward, while the remainder skirted the coast southward to Dover. . Bombs were dropped at Dover and" Margate, where three persons were killed and two injured. Only slight damage, was done. Our antiaircraft gunfire brought down two raiders, The High Commissioner reports:— LONISON, August 22. It is officially announced that ten enemy aeroplanes raided tliQ_ Kentish coast this morning. Bombs were flropped on Dover and Margate, by which, three were killed and two injured. The material damage was slight. Two enemy machines were brought down. 1 (Australian and Renter.) LONDON, August 22. The Press Bureau reports that enemy airships appeared off the Yorkshire, coast last night. One attacked th(! mouth of the Humbcr, dropped bombs, and then went seaward when the antiaircraft guns opened fire, flight damage was done, and one man was injured. HOW THE RAIDERS OAME.

VIGILANCE OF BRITAIN'S AERIAL WATCHERS. c ZEPPELIN PARTICIPATES. THREE VESSELS SHOT DOWN. (Australian and Reuters). 3 Received August 23, H.f> p.m. LONDON, August 23. It is officially announced that the raiders dropped bombs on Dover, Mar-1 gate, and Ramsgate, and eleven were 1 killed and thirteen injured,' At Dover ami Ramsgate a number of houses and the hospital were damaged. One enemy pilot was rescued, ami is injured. Another official'message states that one, or at the. most, two airships, which were raiding Yorkshire coast Jast night, ventured overland and dropped shells on three villages' near the coast, wrecking the chapel and damaging the houses, One man was injured. (Australian and Router's)

Received August 23, 11.5 p.m. LONDON, August 28.

When the raiders were approaching Margate at a great altitude, our gunfire opened upon them. Two fled headlong. An incessant battle in the ■ air continued for half an hour.' In connection witll the raid on the, Yorkshire coast last night,- 'searchlights along the Humber caught a Zeppelin at the i height of two miles. Gunfire prevented the visitor reachitig his objective. Tlio vessel dropped a number of bombs befd're disappearing. (Australian and Beuter). Received August 23, 11.45 p.m. LONDON, August 23. The Admiralty Our naval aeroplanes attacked ten Gothas in the vicinity of 1 Eamsgate at a height of 11,000 foot. Wo shot down one, in addition to the two already reported. We chased the remainder out to sea. ■ I J. . EXCITING CONTESTS OVER THE ... CHANNEL. SUCCESS' OF BRITISH AIRCRAFT. I (Australian and Eeuter). Received August 24, 12,'30 a.m. LONDON, August 23. The Admiralty reports: Three machines from Dunkirk indecisively engaged twelve Gothas, thirty-five miles rortlnvard of Nieuport, and chased them to Zeebrugge. Another patrol of ten machines engaged twenty-five enemy escorting scouts, awaiting the raiders from England, and drove down I at least five completely out of control. | Accurate counting was impossible, ow-1 ing to the close fighting, All our machines returned. A German official report says: Our aviators successfully bombed the fortified towns on the English coast. (Australian and Eeuto'rs.) Received August 24, 1.20 a.m. : AMSTERDAM, August 23. Airmen, this -inorning, raided Zeebrugge and Bruges Canal,