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Show fijJ'Ji British Airmen Busy Behind Hun Lines in Flanders Many Photographs Taken. TONS OF BOMBS DROP Successful Air Raids Made Into German Territory and Explosives Fall on Factory. LONDON, Nov. 1. German munitions muni-tions factories in Bavaria have" been attacked by British airplanes. British airmen also dropped bombs on German Ger-man billots and airdromes behind the, lines in Flanders. The statement reads: "On Wednesday advantage was taken of the change In tho weather and both our own and enemy airplanes air-planes wore in the air all day. . The visibility was not very good for artillery artil-lery work, but a great deal of bombing bomb-ing was carried out by our machines and many photographs wore taken. "Tho airplanes also co-operated successfully in a raid carried out by our infantry yesterday afternoon northeast of Loos, reported In last night's official statement, firing several sev-eral thousand rounds from their machine ma-chine guns and dropping bombs on hostile troops In the communication trenches. I Tons of Bombs Dropped. "During the day five tons of bombs were dropped by us on Roulers, caus- j lng fires and explosions and on many ' hostile billets. At night a further two ' i i -"j? i and a half tons were dropped on airdromes air-dromes in the neighborhood of Court-rai, Court-rai, the airdrome at Gontrode and on the railway stations at Roulers, Thour-out Thour-out and Courtral. Two trains were attacked at-tacked from a low height. One of them was derailed and the other was destroyed completely. The enemy aircraft air-craft was more active and aggressive than for some days, attacking our artillery artil-lery and bombing machines. In the air fighting several hostile machines were brought down. Nine of our machines are missing. "Today another successful raid was carried out into Germany. The munitions muni-tions factory at Kaiserlauten (about forty miles west of Mannheim), was attacked by two groups of six machines ma-chines each. Cloudy weather Impeded the accurate dropping of bombs. One group encountered enemy defending scouts and brought one of theni oown. All our machfnes returned safely." oo |