BRITISH AEROPLANES BOMB GERMAN NAVAL STATION.
HITS REGISTERED ON TORPEDO CRAFT AT BRUGES. RAID REPEATED THE FOLLOWING NIGHT. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. LONDON, Feb. 6. The British Admiralty announces that naval aeroplanes on Friday attacked the German naval station at Bruges. Heavy bombs fell on torpedo craft and docks, and buildings were set on fire. Another raid was successfully carried out the following night, when the docks and railway lines were bombed. Bruges is a Belgian town 13 miles east of Ostend, at the junction of the Ghent, Ostend, and Sluis Canals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16459, 8 February 1917, Page 7
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93BRITISH AEROPLANES BOMB GERMAN NAVAL STATION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16459, 8 February 1917, Page 7
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