COMBATS IN THE AIR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12085, 14 August 1917, Page 5

COMBATS IN THE AIR.

THRILLING FTGHTTNG OVER. THE SEA. ENEMY CRAFT DESTROYED. Australian and K.Z. Cable Association tnd Reuter. (Received August. 14, noon.) LONDON, August 13The Admiralty roports that a hostile aeroplane of the G'othn. typo, was destroyed during; it? rot urn t-o the "Belgian eoast from England. A hostile seaplane was destroytd off the Flanders coast. A largo number of British nava.l machinos indecisively engaged the raiders over tho sea. The pi lot who destroyed the Gotha first pursued tho enemy «at an altitude, of twelve thousand fe.efc from tho North Foreland to fifteen miles off Zeehrugge, where the enemy was lost. Returning over the Thames mouth, the pilot observed anti-aircraft lire at ftoufchend, and flew there, climbing. He observed eight Gothas, followed bv four British, steering northeast.. Ho climbed eighteen thousand feet and attacked; but without- ■>£&- suit. Thirty miles <rat seaward tho pilot observed a hostile machine four thousand feet below tho enemy formation He attacked aucl drove the enemy down to tho water.