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r Alsace, fought at a height of 10,500 feet, the French aviator kills the German. June 20--Germans shoot down one allied aeroplane near Iseghem, Flanders, and another near Vouziers, in Champagne. June 21--Austrian naval planes bombard the railway stations at Bari and Brindisi, doing considerable damage; allied aeroplanes bombard Turkish batteries on Asiatic side of the Dardanelles. June 22--British aeroplane drops three bombs on Smyrna, causing seventy casualties in the garrison. June 25--French aviators drop twenty bombs on the station of Douai, fifteen miles northeast of Arras. June 26--British aviators drop bombs near Roulers, Belgium, causing the explosion of a large ammunition depot and the killing of fifty German soldiers. June 27--French aeroplane drops eight shells on the Zeppelin hangars at Friedrichshafen. July 1--French aeroplanes drop bombs on Zeebrugge and Bruges, but slight damage is done. July 2--Austrian aeroplane bombards the town of Cormons, Austria, now in Italian hands, killing a woman and boy, and wounding five other civilians. July 3--German aeroplanes bombard a fort near Harwich, England, and bombard a British torpedo boat destroyer flotilla; German aeroplanes also bombard Nancy and the railroad station at Dombasle, southeast of Nancy, severing railroad communication with the fort at Remiremont; a German aeroplane forces a French aeroplane to alight near Schlucht; German air squadron drops bombs on Bruges, doing slight damage; French airmen bombard the railroad stations at Challerange, Zarren, and Langemarck, in Belgium, and German batteries at Vimy and Beauraing, doing considerable damage. July 13--A French squadron of thirty-five aviators drops 171 bombs at and near the railroad station strategically established by the Germans at Vigneulles-les-Hattonchatel, where ammunition and other stores are concentrated; the bombs start several fires; all the aeroplanes return, though violently cannonaded; French squadron of twenty aeroplanes bombards with forty shells the station at Libercourt, between Douai and Lille; aeroplanes furnished with cannon, part of the squadron, bombard a train. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY July 15--A Red Book issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs charges cruelty and breaches of international law against the Allies. BELGIUM July 2--General von Bissing, German Governor-General, issues an order forbidding, under penalty of fine or imprisonment, the we
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