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Show oo HANNHEDH BOMBED BY BRITISH PLANES LONDON, Doc. 25. Tho city of Mannheim, in Germany on the Rhino, was bombarded by a British air squadron squad-ron early on Monday, says an official statoment covering tho operation of army aviators during Sunday and in Monday's early hours. A ton of bombs was dropped and several fires wore started. All but one of the British maohlnes returned. The text of the statement reads: "The enemy's machines wefe very active on Sunday. Five were brought down In air fighting, three falling in our lines. Two other machines were brought down in our lines by anti-aircraft gunfire. One of those latter was a large twin engined mochlne with three occupants who were mnde prisoner. pris-oner. "Our night flying machines bombed several enemy airdromes with good effect. "At daylight Monday one of our squadrons bombed Mannheim, on the Rhine, with excellent results. A ton of bombs wore dropped and bursts were observed in the largo main station, sta-tion, munition works, and also in the town, where fires were started. Very heavy anti-aircraft gunfire was directed di-rected against our airplanes. One machine was damaged and forced to land. Enemy scouts made repeated attacks upon our formations but were driven off. All of our machines ma-chines returned except the one aforementioned." |