AN AFFAIR OF PATROLS
LONDON, October 29'
The Admiralty reports thati six British and French destroyers, while patrolling! the- Belgian coast on Saturday, attacked three German destroyers and seventeen aeroplanes. They obtained" 1 two direct hits on ■enemy destroyers, which immediately retired to the protection: of the land -batteries. , Our anti-aircraft gunfire broke the aeroplanes formation. The aeroplanes each dropped three bombs in the vicinity of our vessels but no damage/ was done. Two men were slightly wounded. — A. and KZ. Cable.
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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18486, 30 October 1917, Page 3
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