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Show BOMB ATTACK ON Huns ran Description of the Fighting Which Helped to End the Great War. DUNKIRK, France, Oct. 7. (Correspondence (Corre-spondence of the Associated Press.) J Ruin rained from the skies upon the German areas back of Ostend and Zeebruggee at the beginning of the great allied offensive on the Belgian coast Today the whole country in the rear of tho German lines shows the scars of more than seventeen tons of bombs dropped upon the Gorman reinforcement re-inforcement line centers by aviators of tbe Royal Air forces. Every squadron and battery that returned to the British Brit-ish lines reported great fires burning where ammunition dumps and stores 01 gasoline nau oeen niu Tney torn 01 trains brought to a standstill by great craters torn in their lines by airplane bombs. While British monitors lying off the 1 Belgian coast raked the German bat-! terles at Ostend and Zeebruggo with 1 fifteen Inch shells, tho air attacks con-1 centrated on the reinforcement lines 1 behind tho German front The triangle of railroad with Thourout, LIchter-1 velde and Cortomarck at Its comers was the center of tho British airplane, activities. These three Important rail - ' road junctions, but 5000 yards apart,! were targets for tho fifth group ofj British air forces. Dawn breaks late at this season and it was stf 11 dark, with a dash of rain, J when the hour for starting arrived! From the various aerodromes the for- j mations lifted Into the drenched air; and wero quickly lost in the low hang j ing clouds. To the south of them, be ' yond Dixmude, the battlo already wasj in progress. Seven machlnos were lost In the flurry of night and bombs, but tho rest hurried on and arrived over; thoir targets. I Tho first bombs woro falling by 7 o'clock In tho gray, rainy morning. Tho pilot who dived upon Zarron lot go his bombs from a holght of only 200 foot whoro ho could boo thom land and burBt In tho troop-congostod town. Another An-other pilot happened upon a largo-callbrc largo-callbrc battery omplaccd to tho north of Stadon. He dlvod through tho clouds to a holght of 200 foot boforo ho let go IiIh bombs nnd then waited aloft until ho was sure tho bnttory had ceased to Are. Squadron after squadron of airplanes all flying low, roarod over tho three junctions at tho angles of tho "railway triangle" bombing thorn Industriously. Every road bad Its watchful sweeping airplane. There was no Hafo channel for the hurrying currents of German traffic. A train going south from Thourout was raided by an airplano pilot who came down to within 100 feet of the ground and flow past the train, his machlno gun swooping the troops who spouted forth from It. Throo trainB wero sot on flro nnd direct hits were mado on four others. Near Werchem, tho road was occupied occu-pied for a mllo by a transport column. Elghtoen woll directed bombs converted convert-ed tho moving column Into u horrible barricade of smashed wagons and lorries, lor-ries, dead horses, rioad and Svouudod mon, Tho survivor noattorcd to wide dltchOH on cither nldo of the road, With two mnohlno rruns Arlni touothor olghloen hundred roundn a mluutu the airplano pilot raked both ditches. "Many caaualtloa nnione Doruonncl" was the ofllcial statement of the result re-sult , As daylight broadened and the weather improved every railway and every road behind the German lines was a river of vehicles and men but the airplanes had laid a line of danger across the country which the Germans had to travel from their bases to the front where the Britsih and Belgians were driving the Hun line backward. That night the great railway siding near Ghent where twenty-five trains can lie sldo by side was brightly lit and feverish with activity Trains were shunting and pulling in and out noisily nois-ily for the German front was yielding before the allied thrust and risks had to bo taken. Down came the bombs and the pilots saw the flash of their explosions explo-sions In the train-jams and the sidings and forthwith tho lights flickered out and darkness and terror added themselves them-selves to the confusion and urgency below. Thereafter the Germans, when they moved large bodies of troops, moved I them under cover of night and possibly across the fields. The air barrage Kiln across the ways to the front was an KljlB invisible one, that wavered and shift- ed and was deadly: It was as though llfii there rose from the marshy land a Slf IH drifting miasma of death. ' Iml |