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Show oo BATTLE FOUOBT HIGHINTHE AIR By ANDRE BEAUMONT. Basel, Switzerland, March 26 Jn the recent aerial battle in Alsace no less than twenty aoroplanes were engaged en-gaged on both sides. Tt was the greatest great-est atrial tight since the beginning of the war. It took place In the triangle trian-gle botween Lorrach. a point on the Swiss frontier, and Muelhausen and Altkirch. The French aerial squadron come from the Vosges: the Germans from a mountain in the Black forest. Fortress Isteln opened fire on the advancing front squadron and soon the batteries of Altkirch joined in. Meanwhile the German aviators with musketry fire and bombs attacked the French airmen, who defended themselves them-selves with machine guns and riflw The aviators circled around each other, oth-er, each maneuvering for position and watching every movement of their opponents, op-ponents, ready to dash In and hurl one another to death. Finally, after the battle had raged for about an hour, the Gormans withdrew with-drew and disappeared In the direction Uf Altkirch All of the French avia-) avia-) tors probably returned lately to their base, as there Is no report of any casualties casu-alties anions (hem. I.nndon, .March 2C. French aviators raided the Zeppelin sheds of the Germans Ger-mans at Frescaty, within the borders f Germany, today. They hombard-ed hombard-ed the station at Metz and the barracks bar-racks at Strassburg and escaped in a hai of shells and gunfire, according to the French communique received from Paris tonight Berlin, March 2G, via London, March 27, 2:30 a. m The following official statement was issued tenlpht: 'Several hostile airmen dropped bombs on the southern part of Met? They were driven away by our artillery artil-lery fire Three soldiers were killed, but no material damage wag done " oo |