AERIAL WARFARE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15743, 30 August 1915, Page 7

AERIAL WARFARE.

ATTACK ON PARIS. AN ENEMY MACHINE BURNED. PARIS, August 28. Four German aeroplanes attempted to attack Paris this morning. French aviators pursued them. Three turned homowards near Compiegne, two escaped, and the third was brought down. It burst into flames and the occupants were incinerated. The fourth machine dropped fire bombs at Montmorency, harmlessly, and was then driven off.

FURTHER PARTICULARS

Received 12.25 a.m., August 30th

PARIS, August 29

Details of the air raid show that three German machines ascended from

the Soissons district, and three from Compiegne. They were unable to attain their objective and dropped a few bombs at Nogent sur Marne, Montmorency, Montfermeil, Ribecourt and Compiegne. Nobody was hurt except

at Compiegne, where two nurses and a child were killed. Immediately the aeroplanes were sighted they were bombarded at different points and chased by our machines. The commander of one of our squadrons pursued a German machine at a height of 3600 metres and brought it down northward of Senlis. The pilot was incinerated and the machine burnt.

DAMAGING COMMUNICATIONS

Official.—Our aeroplanes last niglit bombed the railway station at Chatel, in Argonne.

NO DAMAGE ADMITTED

AMSTERDAM, August 2S

A German communique says:—Enemy airmen unsuccessfully bombed Ostend, Middelkirke, Bruges and Mulheim in Baden. Three civilians were killed.

A NOTED COMMANDER.

KILLED BY ACCIDENT.

Received 2 p.m., August 2pth. LONDON, August 28

The King sent a message of sympathy to the mother of Captain G. Mapplebcck, aviator, who was killed at Dart-ford on Tuesday, on the eve of his 23rd birthday, while testing a new machine. He was the youngest Flight Commander, and was one of the first batch sent to Flanders, the first to reconnoitre the enemy's line, and the first to drop bombs. He reconnoitred throughout the Mons retreat, and l was shot in a duel at the end of September at six thousand feet. He landed unconscious, and was in hospital three months. He was shot down at Lille in March during the first night raid of the war. He hid amidst the Germans for days and escaped with the aid of

peasants despite the proclamation of a reward for his capture and of death for harbouring him. He reached Holland in a peasant's disguise after three weeks, and immediately returned to the front. Latterly he commanded the squadron guarding London. *