BRITISH RAID GERMANY.
AEROPLANE SQUADRONS DO
FINE WORK,
MUCH DAMAGE DONE,
Received 11.5 p.m. Oct. 26
LONDON, Oct. 26. Our aeroplane squadrons last night attacked factories and railway communications in the vicinity of' Saarbruc ken, with excellent results. Naval machines dropped over 3J tons of explosives on Burbach worKs, westward of Saarbrucken, causing considerable damage and many fires. Another squadron bombed railway stations, junctions and goods sidings round about Saarbrucken, securing many direct hits and numerous esplossions.
A big bomb destroyed a train proceeding to Saarbruick.
A total of five tons was dropped
(Saarbrucken is a town of Rhenish Prussia/'4Q miles south-east of Treves.)
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17124, 27 October 1917, Page 5
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