ITALY'S ATTITUDE. AN AERIAL RAID.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 December 1914, Page 5

ITALY'S ATTITUDE.

AN AERIAL RAID.

DARING DASH UPON LONDON. AN EXCITING CHASE. (Received Last Nigiit, 5.5. o^ook) v LONDON, Doc. 2(>th. Vded by a fog a German-aviator eluded ■ tlie coastwatehers and pa<*ed up the Thames a, far as Erith. Ha was first sighted at 12 M pm over Sheppey, at a. height of nine thousand feet. As he descended an auto-air gun wa?.' fired without t«ftect. Tlie enemy was then lost in the fog. Three British aeroplanes started in pursuit, 'Jno German a.r,.hip made across the Kentshire marshes. Before being located at Erith, ct was flying towards London. Six shells were fired by the aircraft statin, and hurst above and around the machine, which wheeled upwards and retraced its flight. Wthin a few minute.; the Britishers., flying from westwards, p-.j----sued at a. lower altitude. . ~-, i e t . The Gorman followed the centre of the river at an altitude «* toui thOU The d ]3rivihers appeared to gain on the German, who mounted higher above- the forts, and swept towards Southend. Tho chase was continued across Essex. Finding the forts restricted, owing to the prop liquify of their own aviator., to* the enemy, the, latter and her passengers kept firing from a skilfully-manipulated machine. ; While nvniniijrng the chances of their being hit, they made it difficult for the pursuers to fire without injuring cadi other. The German rocked violently at times, as if struck. Then the fog thickened, and baffled the pursuer?, xvho returned to their base.