The largest air raid yet attempted by the Allies was
carried out on Monday, when sixty-five machines, mostly British, but including nineteen French. and some Belgian machines, bombed Zeebrugge and Hoettave. Zeebrugge is now a considerable station, not only for German seaplanes, but also for submarines. Among the Allied machines were fifteen fighting aeroplanes, which accompanied the bomb-droppiug machines as escort. The bomb droppers carried about two hundred'pounds each. One Belgian officer was seriously wounded, but all the machines returned safely. It is believed -that much damage was done. The largest previous raid was con- ducted a year ago 'by forty British and eight French machines. This is'the true policy—to march the enemy out in his own home The Billings of Germany may then'be left, to wail over the impotence of their country to protect itself.
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