FRENCH AIRMEN HAVE A SERIES OF SUCCESSES.
ZEPPELIN AND TORPEDO-BOAT JTTT BY SHELLS. FOKKER BROUGHT DOWN IN THE FRENCH LINES. London, April 26. A French communique states that a French aeroplane struck a Zeppelin with a shell at a height of over 12,000 ft off ZeebruggeAnother at Ostend hit a torpedo-boat. A French pilot brought down a Fokker in the French lines to the northward of Luneville, and the aviator was taken prisoner. The policy of the Fokker has been to wait behind the German lines and engage British and French aeroplanes making observat.ons rhe Germans engage British and French aeroplanes making obsenauons. have attempted to guard the secret of the Fokker, particularly its engines, and it has been stated that instructions were given to a.rmcn .us.ng Fokker. ~.,,. ~ „j ;f broueht down in enemy territory, to remain within their own lines, and, it Diougm- » *» to destroy their machines.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16215, 28 April 1916, Page 5
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