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Show - 11L FLEETS ! Ill FRENCH S IB HMj i Une Squadron Beats I $ German "Aviaticks" t j,BKle on Border of - Rhine Provinces. ; rRTY-TVO HEAVY ;- MACHINES IN RAID ; v-tcchmen Start Flight for ;lirbniecken With Urge . - Number, but Some Have to Turn Back. i '-r A-rt52t w.tft u-u-o ri:r Au? 9 The navies of the air . jp:3 shed. and a French aero-tyzlTcz aero-tyzlTcz biJ beaten off a moe-auito - . y terzAs "aviattcka." bombarded V". ny Kuon and factories at Saar- i o the Gorier of the RMne . en Gerrsaf. sot:, and saMed 1-c;i: a !er.5e foj without tSam-" tSam-" J - irt'-s S'81 clouds of snioke and r - rs.-rg from te earth below. r- awm to wNch the eky armadas V dT5oFd br the genius of the :'X'jCs ari pilots ia aptly dem- w:er. it becomes known that -j n-jadrocs are now fashioned oq tha plaa of fleets of battls-s battls-s " -j. Tbe r-actincs are divided Into -r a, cf which has lta own func-- func-- to perform. r:ts Sent Out. ": i:-eiy. light aircraft are derlg-" derlg-" -:u -j. souis ar.d destroyers of the l. ir.tL ari mrra around the heavier ' -J, ihici, fir-S in tattle format Ion, -j - :-:i;3ei wuh ieavy bombs and light Tiey carry only machine rifies l 45 1 raised f.re gur.s and are de--ii to flzhi off the attacks of the r" "-T.T aircraft, givir? the rr.aln squad-" squad-" of iir dreid noughts opport'jnlti' r. iJi'ttTHr ar.d sail away or to prepare ysd-a for battle. . -r.fj of Ri'irg by two and threea, as - : ie ..-xir-g of the war, these air-nc air-nc strike out on their raids tn - "j of thirty or more, the Hj?M aeros -'u wt m front and protecting tne i of heavier and slower breth-&re breth-&re burdened with heavy siusj in tAakeia underneath. .". ' - an De released upon the eartii by r., arnciecent l:ke the gear of '-:-j'ite, ciose by tne pilot's hand. ' ""-.''. a fis?ship for each squadron. : -. i:?h the 8:e.it commander issues 7: "n to tis captains and lieutenants : :; 4 e other aircraft. Even atmoa-; atmoa-; ror.di-.ions have, to a large ex-' ex-' Z. " - overcome, today's raid being oj; in a bank of fog. the ,Fre.nch ' iayine a course for miiea -V- the fleecy curtain. ;;: orty-two Machines. 'S- heavy machines, accom- .i: by a number of lu?ht craft, set ! point in northern France todav 7t ra:n arainst aarbruecksen.' Owing aV -L'fic'':ltle5 of the fog, six of the U- .5',.l't aerc wer,! fored to put back. . ' rest laid a good course and In Hi"' iQurB arr1ved over their des- rffarm of German "avUtfcks" im-J im-J 10 the air to combat the p."' ie-t- b'jt were Immediately en-:y en-:y tr,; speedy air cruisers and de-;- ,. v"8 of tlw French fleet, the while C tJe aeros cirrled over theic objec-: objec-: - :..;- iwsed salvos of bombs, more y ;' . h-jrtiing earthward upon the rr- 41 and factories in the German 7 i ..::r work completed, the word to re-T re-T ,1astl to each French machine, :- , ,j-"iie tn.e smaller craft fought off ii :, ar-s. the retreat commenced. - ' -"-'h of neavy smoke and sheets of ----- . "C r!Ma? fron the ground told where isa had hit. |