Show BATTLE IN III THE BIB AIR OVER DUES ENGLISH CITY GERMAN AVIATORS MAKE AN OTHER ATTEMPT TO DROP BOMBS ON BRITISH PORTS british aircraft engages the at attacking tack machines and succeeds succeed in circumventing plans of the attacking alp air fleet london german aviators made an other attempt to drop bombs bomba on british ports on christmas ChrIstma 3 day like tha attempt against dover that of friday which was directed against sheerness was unsuccessful an aeroplane crossed the channel according to the official report and sailing high hew flew over sheerness ss british aircraft went in pursuit and says one dispatch engaged the i enemy for a quarter of ar an hour before thousands 0 of spectators 0 rs the invaders finally disappeared in the mist having been lilt hit several times later three british airships tried to outflank the german machine but the latter was flying too fast and disappeared to the eastward it la Is reported at dover that a german aeroplane flying at a great height passed over the medway river and herne bay friday british aeroplanes aero planes and seaplanes sea planes were out on scouting duty for many hours the spectacle of a fight in the air w witnessed on christmas afternoon by thousands of spectators was one which ten year ago would have been considered one of the wildest imaginings of fiction |