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Show BATTLE IN THE AIR OVER ENGLISH CITY GERMAN AVIATORS MAKE ANOTHER AN-OTHER ATTEMPT TO DROP EOMBS ON BRITISH PORTS. British Aircraft Engages the Attacking Attack-ing Machines and Succeeds in Circumventing Plans of the Attacking Air Fleet. London.; German aviators made another an-other attempt to drop bombs on British Brit-ish ports on Christmas day. Like the 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, flew over Sheerness. British aircraft went in pursuit and, says one dispatch, engaged en-gaged the enemy for a quarter of an hour before' thousands of spectators. The invaders finally disappeared in the mist, having been hit several times. Later three British airships tried to outflank the German machine, but the latter was flying too fast and disappeared disap-peared to the eastward. It is reported at Dover that a German Ger-man aeroplane flying at a great height passed over the Medway river and Herne bay Friday. British aeroplanes and seaplanes were out on scouting duty for many hours. The spectacle of a fight in the air witnessed on Christmas afternoon by thousands of spectators was one which ten year ago would have been considered con-sidered one of the wildest imaginings of fiction. |