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Show HUN RAID ON LONDON COSTS FIVE AIRPLANES LONDON, May 21. Of the twenty to thirty Gotha machine? which took part in the raid on London Sunday night, Ave are reported officially to have been brought down. One of the raiders was engaged b3r a British airman, who fired at close range until the machine disappeared in a cloud. Shortly afterward the machine burst into flames at a height of 7000 feet and fell a blazing wreck. Another machine was brought down by anti-aircraft guns in London. Two others w-ere brought down while attempting to escape, one being destroyed by British airmen. The fifth was set afire and fell into the sea. Bombs were dropped promiscuously on certain parts of the London district, doing, do-ing, in a few cases only, no Inconsiderable Inconsidera-ble damage to small dwelling houses. |