The Allied airmen, undeterred by the weather, have been busy.
The Naval Air Service has made throe more raid f on West Flanders, where life in an enemy aerodrome must now be a daily penance. Besides attacking the aeroplane shelters, our naval men on the 12th inst. made a direct hit on a destroyer in Zeebrugge Harbour, and on the 15th, near Ostend, hit a destroyer amidships and sank one trawler or perhaps two—out of a group of four. The Royal Flying Corps, though hampered by a strong west wind which prevented our machines from returning swiftly, has not only pursued its work of reconnaissance and range-finding, but has also fought the enemy in the air and on the ground. One of our airmen, from a height of only a hundred feet, engaged a column of two thousand German infantry and dispersed them with machine. gun fire. The French bombarding squadrons have gone far afield, dropping bombs on military works at Colmar, Metz, Saarbnrg, and even at Stuttgart, which is one hundred and thirty-six miles due east of Nancy. This good work will, we trust, be greatly extended in the near future.
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