Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
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DUNkIRk. France, Oct. 1.-(COr- respondence of The Associated Press) Ruin rained from the skies upon the German areas back of Ostend and Zee brugge at the beginning of the great allied offensive on the Belgian coast. Today the whole country in the rear of the German lines shows the scars of more than seventeen tons of bombs dropped upon the German reinforce ment line centers by aviators of the Royal Air Force. Every squadron and battery that returned to the British lines reported great fires burning where ammunition dumps and stores of gasoline had been hit They told of trains brought to standstil by great craters torn in their lines by airplane bombs.
 While British monitors lying off the Belgian coast raked the German bat teries at Ostcnd and Zeebrugge with l5-inch shells, the air attacks concen- trated on the reinforcement lines be- hind the German front. The triangle of railroad with Thourout Lichter- velde and Cortsmarck at it's corners was the center of the British airplane activities. These three important rail road functions. but 1000 yards apart.
 
 British air forces.
 Dawn breaks late at this season and it was still dark, with dash of rain. when the hour for starting arrived. From the various aerodromes the for nations lifted into the drenched air and were quickly lost in the low hang ing clouds. To the south of them. be- yond DiXmude, the battle already was in progress. Seven machines were lost in the furry of night and bombs but the rest hurried on and arrived over their targets.
 The first bombs were falling by [ o clock in the gray rainy morning. The pilot who dived upon Barren let go his bombs from a height of only two hundred feet where he could see them land and burst in the troop congested town. Another pilot happened upon a large calibre battery emplaced to the north of Staden. He dived through the clouds to a height of two hundred feet before he let go his bombs and then waited aloft until he was sure the 1 battery had ceased to fire.
 Squadron after squadron of airplanes all flying low roared over the three functions at the angles of the railway triangle" bombing them industriousIv Every road had it's watchful sweeping l airplane There was no safe channel ! for the hurrying currents of German | traffic. A train going south from | Thourout was raided by an airplane | pilot who came down 10 within one 1 hundred feet from the ground and flew | past the train, his machine gun sweep | ing the troops who spouted forth from l it. Three trains were set on fire and 1 direct hits were made on four others. Near Werchem. the road was occu | pied for a mile by transport column | Eighteen well directed bombs convert | ed the moving column into d horrible | barricade of smashed wagons and Tor ries, dead horses. dead and wounded men. The survivors scattered to wide | dltches on either side of the road Witt two machine guns firing together l .S0( | runds a minute the airplane pilot raked both ditches. Many casualties | among personnel" was the officiaI | statement of the result
 As daylight broadened and the weather improved every railway and ] every road behind the German lines Was 2 rIver of vehicles and men but