30 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 1
On Sunday last two French airmen, Captain de Beauchamp@ and
Lieutenant Daucourt, made a successful flight—two hundred and fifty miles each way—to Essen, the seat of Krupp's works, and returned safely after dropping bombs. The raid is officially recorded by the Germans, who admit that small bombs were dropped by several enemy airmen in the centre of the town, while minimizing the results—" most of them caused no damage." The French airmen, both of them already distinguished by their fine records, are to be congratulated on their daring and skill. Their exploit is a most encouraging earnest of further and more serious attacks on the heart of the German war industry.
