New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-27
AERIAL SQUADRON
ATTACKS GERMANS
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miralty TO publish statements re-
garding the losses of German sub
.larines. important though they have
been, in cases where the enemy has
no other source of information as
to the time and place at which these
losses have occurred.
In the case referred to above, how
ever, the brilliant feat of Squadron
Commander BigswOrth was per-
formed in the immediate neigibor-
hood of he coast in occupation of
the enemy. and the position OF the
sunken submarine has been located
b. German destroyer.
FRENCH OFFICIAL.
The statement issued in Paris says:
During the day of August "a a
French aviator threw down bombs
on the railroad station OF Often
rourg, in Baden, seventeen miles
from Karlsruhe. At this point there
il an important railroad junction in
the grand duchy.
On August % an aerial squadron,
composed of four groups and includ-
ing a total of sixty-two aviators flew
over the heights of Dellingen. Here
there is a factory where shells and
.rmor plate are made. The location
of this plant is to the north of Saar-
louis, in Rhenish Prussia, thirty
miles southeast of Treves. The avia-
tors threw down with precision over
$50 bombs, thirty of which were Of
large calibre.
On the 25th our aviators bonn
bardsd the German encampments at
Pennies and at Baussantin, the Woe
vre, where they started fire. The
station an. the bivouacs of the Ger
mans at Grandpre Chatel, Cernay
and Fleville in the Argonne; the
station at Tergnier, the aviation
sheds of Vitry, in Artois, and the
station at Boisleux. have also been
bombarded by our aviators.
A bombarding expedition arranged
by the French and British naval, and
the French, British and Belgian army
aviators. including in all sixty aero
planes, set forth to the Monthulst
Forest. where they started several
fires. Every aeroplane came back
home. On the night Of the 25th and
26th, our avlators dropped l27 bombs
on the Noyon station.
GEK MAN Off lClhL
German Army Headquarters gave out
his statement:
Two enemy air squadrons yester-
day dropped bombs in the Saar VAL
lev. both above and below Saarlous.
Several persons were killed or in
iured. The material damage caused
was not important
The night before last the squad
rons were successfully attacked at
their base at Nancy by our airmen.
The enemy paid for his exploit by
losing four aircraft. One fell TO
earth ablaze, near Bolzhen. The
pilot and observer were killed. One
fell into our hands near Romilly, un-
damaged, and its occupants were
made prisoners. The third was
obliged to land near Arracourt, north
of Luneville, BY German aviator,
right in front of the French lines.
Afterward it was destroyed by our
artillery. The fourth landed within
range of our anti-aircraft guns. near
Moevrons, south of Nomeny. behind
the enemy front.
Press dispatches have indicated that
he principal belligerents nave built
,reat numbers of aeroplanes, and as
result of the development of this
branch of the service since the out
break of the war these machines are
low sent forth In fotillas for organ
zed assaults on a large scale, instead
" being dispatched singly or In pairs,
for observation purposes.
Yesterdays raid was the third In
his part OF Germany during the J. q
hree weeks. On August . Sasrbrueck-
IN was bombarded, and three days later
he neighborinE towns Of Saint lngbert
md Zweibrucken were attacked. Eight
persons were killed in the latter raid