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Show GEIl IU III LONDON II STR D HEH ELAYS Bombs Dropped Intermittently Intermit-tently for Nearly Five Hours; One Machine Brought to Earth. j REPORT DOES NOT MENTION LOSSES Berlin Announces Escape of Cruiser Goeben Into the Dardanelles; British Casualties Decrease. LOXl ;?.', Jan. 1"' -An.uks by meniv airmen on London la.-1 mtht and a rl today J u J 1nt'rndttntly fur nearly fiv liourh, and for two hours there was a heavy and almo't coniinuous pun fire. The nmbeid of the Royal Geographical Geographi-cal so-'brty, with iiiiiiiv Iidles in th! InrKc j-U lien. e, were aysrmliled to liear a ?rf:'"'h by LtuTenant i icni :.! J. u. u.ut?-. tIr Thomas llolrji. h. the relden t . announced tliat nott'-1 h.id just been reelwd an air rai l, aiM th.it tl"'i poll- e informed hhn the audience w;i;d br- filer if they Teilt to the b3l-en;erjt !' t'n-; buildin. Tikii!, w-t l-'iid i.:ifs ol "''trry on!" diid tiiti audience leinalntd in the hah. Continues Speech. General Mr.nt- r-'ke e.in:!' fr-r an hoijr amid rei"-iis i-f the fe'un.v Afterward After-ward AV'alter Hume Lone, colonial fe.re-t fe.re-t ir; . paid a warm tribute to General Kmutp and ih- Afri'an arm', which ren-i ren-i evented .ill unit of t he. Bri; istt empire. , m-ijority of the theaters 'ciit tiirojh v, r, .t tiieir performances with decree ted audiene, but tome were idle bectu:e of the failure of ae.torrt to arrive on account of the lateness of suburban trains. Attack in Relays. Tne raid carried out by tl tonid- er;i Me mini !ht (t h Irplane, p hi- fi followed fol-lowed th f miliH r t-;i'-ri s of attackinar in relays. As fa r hh eouid be seen not more fh'-n three or four airpl:in:8 bmko through the Tjor.Ion def'nH. The invaders were at'akeS by numbers of Lritish ma-'.hines. ma-'.hines. Tne text of the official communication says: Hot-til airplanf- noised the Kent and L?si' coasts ' hortiy b..-fore 8 o i lock tins evening and proceed d to-r:i to-r:i rd London. Soinn of the machines penetra ted to t he i.apilal. where boir.ljs weic dropped for several Iiour. The Jatet reports how 1 t one eneoiy machine was broucjlit Uuvmi by our airmen in Essex. GERMANS REPORT CRUISER GOEBEN SAFE FROM ATTACK BERLIN, via London. .Ian. 2$ Tt Ip officially announced that the Turkish cruller Sultan Yaw uz Pelim ('formerly the German cruiff ("iO'-len Iihs been refloated re-floated and entered the Dardanelles. A British official communication issued thlh evening concerning the Sultan Selim p;i ys : Since the last communication bad weather ha.3 bumpered our operations : against the Coebcn, but nover.il raids h;Lvc been made and bombs dropped on the Goeben and on gun positions at Gaba Tepe. At noon Sunday the Goeben's position po-sition was unchanged. j The Sultan Selim was bombed at Xa-i Xa-i Kara, point in the Dardanelles about ten ; day.s ao a iter sin; had struek a mine I whiles fieeinq from Hrilish u.irsiiips. J-Ter ; sister yhip. the Midullu, formerly the German cruiser Rrfslau, was sunk at t he . same time by striking a mine, j Winee the heaehinpr of the Sultan Selim. British naval aircraft have flown over her, dropping bomby, a number of which scored hiis. ; The German admiralty, in a statement l issued January s;iid the Sultan Slim i had grounded lightly on entering the Dardanelles, Dar-danelles, and that pIjc bad not been run ashore after striking a mine. BRITISH AIRMEN VICTORIOUS ON ITALIAN FRONT LON'DOX. Jan. 2S. The war office to-(lny to-(lny issued a statement on the operations of the Eriti.sh forces In Italy. It Bay: uwinc- to better vlttihllitv rccentlv, our artillery has rarrie.l out much smrecssfnl counter-hat irrv sork and hoinb.irdnient. Our aircraft have boon active in aerial combats and reconnaissance v.ork. i enemy macliin-s and two balloons were shot down In the last. Rcek. Tlie total hostile aircraft destroyed since t tin end of November, when our machines commenced operations, were titirly-seven machines shot down and. two brought, down our of control; four balloons were burned. Only five of our machines arc mljsinc. American Airmen in Raid. WITH THK AMERICAN' J,Riy IX FRAN'CE, fciundi.y, Jan. 27. (By the As- (Continusd on Paga TUre !OERIWIfJRI LOiOfj II RELAYS (Continued from Page One.) sonared Fre-s Four Amcrb.in flyers a:t."ehe1 ia a Fren-:h squadron have par-ti-uriated in a dayhgh t raid O'-er ' jer-m jer-m ?. n y . A U rt : u r n e d f e l y . Because t ', w eat her vi forgy the a:ators were unable to determines iust what danace w..s rio:.e, but ;;s thev flew fairly low e er f he ta rgets it is believed the results were go-'d. Afier rccrossir.g the hns the boinhcr.-i were fired upon v:gorouslv by t he enemy anti-aircraft guns. They then ran into s ti! ' ier fog. and some of the airmen were forced! to land before reaching their hangars. I |