GREAT FRENCH AERIAL RAID.
OVER 32 AEROPLANES TAKE PART. (i KRAI AN FACTORY AND STATION BOMBARDED. (Received. Autrust. It), 0.20 p.m.) PARIS, August 10. A .squadron of 02 bombardment aeroplanes, escorted by aeroplanes for pursuit purposes, left this morning to bombard the station and factory at Saarbruek. The weather was unfavorable, the valleys being shrouded in mist, but 28 of the aeroplanes reached their goal and dropped 164 shells. The escorting aeroplanes kept off the enemy aviators. Numerous columns of smoke were observed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 5
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83GREAT FRENCH AERIAL RAID. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 5
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