AN EFFECTIVE RAID.
BRITISH AIRMEN -CAUSE GREAT DAMAGE:
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, August 18. A German prisoner gives details of the British aeroplane raid on St. Qu entin at the end of July. He says that while two German battalions, were awaiting entrainment the aviators' bombs fell on an ammunition shed and there was a terrible explosion. Sixty waggons lying m the station ignited and also . exploded 'and. destroyed the soldiers' train. , The battalions became panic-stricken and fled. One hundred and eighty were killed and Wounded.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14075, 19 August 1916, Page 3
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88AN EFFECTIVE RAID. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14075, 19 August 1916, Page 3
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