AERIAL ACTIVITY
MANY PLACES BOMBED.
LONDON, October 28
The Admiralty reports that the Naval Air Service on Friday night bombed Liohtttrsveide railway junction* securing' direct bits, and causing! heavy explosions. The Service visa bombed Thorout railway junction and Corteinarck, junction. Expltejiions wei'e obsei*ved. On Saturday Sparaippeldock and Engel" aerodiXMnes were bombed, aJiso tiie Osteiid and Thorouit railway. Two enemy ma.hines were brought down. All ours returned safely.—A. and N.Z. and ,
$ LONDON, October 29
Our aeroplanes were busy all day >ii Saturday, and co-operatedi ■with, he artillery. They fired, several thousand rounds at ground targets from; heights ranging from one hunlred to a thousand feet. They dropped twenty-nine heavy bombs- on 'toulers station and six on Abeele erodrome, and 121 lighter bombs sere dropped on billets. Eastwards >f Lens our squadfrons at night time, li-opped four tons on seven aeirokomes and .three important railway stations. Several 'burst near the \imgans and rail tracks. Enemy; lieroplanes repeatedly attacked, but >urs never failed to reach? tihear objectives. We brought down eleven. . Mne >f oires are missing.—iA. aiid 7 N.Z. md Reuter.'
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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18486, 30 October 1917, Page 3
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