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Show MANNHEIM BOMBED BY BRITISH PLANES EARLY MONDAY LONDON, Dec. 25. The city of Mannheim, Mann-heim, in Germany on the Rhine, was bombarded bom-barded by a British air squadron early on Monday, says an official statement covering cov-ering the operations of army aviators during Sunday and in Monday's early hours. A ton of bombs was dropped and several fires were started. All but one of the British machines returned. The text of the statement reads: "The enemy's machines were very active ac-tive on Sunday. Five were brought down In air fighting, three falling in our lines. Two other machines were brought down in our lines bv- anti-aircraft gunfire. One j of these latter was a large twin engined machine with three occupants who were made prisoner. "Our night flying machines bombed several enemy airdromes with good effect. "At daylight Monday one of our squad- ! rons bombed Mannheim, on the Rhine, i with excellent results. A ton of bombs J were dropped and bursts were observed in the large main station, munition works, and also In the town, where fires were started. Very heavy anti-aircraft gunfire was directed against our airplanes. One machine was damaged and forced to land. Enemy scouts made repeated attacks at-tacks upon our formations but were driven off. All of our machines returned except the one aforementioned." |