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Presumably a ship had at last arrived with adequate machines, for all through the summer long-distance bombing raids were undertaken with conspicuous success; and for the first time our planes "had the wings" of the Turks. One great raid was carried out after a report had been received that three German divisions were on their way south from Constantinople to reinforce the Turk.
I can tell you we felt very happy when we were safely inside. To think that one should look to the cells of a prison as a haven of refuge! "In Lieutenant Alexander's bombing raid five German prisoners were captured they are in here now and three killed. Alexander sustained no casualties whatever, and got back safely. "We had breakfast at 3 a.m. and I went to bed about 4 a.m.
She then raid off, and so did we, so that she might not rake us, and broadsides were exchanged on equal terms; but before we had exchanged these broadsides, both ships running with the wind on the quarter, we found that our superiority in sailing free was so great, that we shot ahead of him out of his fire, and we were enabled to luff up and rake him again.
The trains over the B. & O. Railroad were still running. Evidences of the John Brown raid were plainly visible, and the engine-house in which he and his men barricaded themselves and were captured by the marines, commanded by Col. R. E. Lee, of the United States Army, stood as at the close of that affair.
Father has been down in that cellar for days under a guard. They took him away to-night. She doesn't know where. It was she sent the warnings to Sheriff Bolt. She wanted him to raid the place, but she dared not go to him." "Because of Blackwell?" "Yes. He came straight to her as soon as he was freed from the penitentiary. He had her completely terrorized.
And in fact he found his forces each day diminishing as food became more scarce in those barren wilds, or as some lucky raid necessitated a departure for home with the prize.
"You couldn't see any more signs of 'em than if they'd been lifted up in one of them flying machines and histed up over the mountain! That's th' funny part of this raid." "There have been some other queer things around here," said Dick. "There was that bottle last night." "What was that?" asked Snake, quickly. "There was some promiscuous shooting around here last night," said Bud.
Is this a little private raid of your own? For which side are you fighting? And I say, Sandy, what's the weight of that old-fashioned bar of iron you have in your hands? I'd like to decide a bet. Let me heft it, as you said in the shop." "Oh, it's you, is it?" said Sandy in a disappointed tone, lowering his gun. "I thought we had raked in another of them.
A draft of 107 arrived on the 26th December, and the companies which had been organised into two platoons since the fight for the ridge at the Wadi Hesi, expanded again into four platoons. On the 28th we heard the plans of a proposed raid, but that was postponed, and finally cancelled altogether the next day.
"When we reach the car," he said over his shoulder, "ask no questions head for home, and don't stop for anything on two legs or on four. That's the first thing most important; then, when you know you're safe, telephone Scotland Yard to send a raid squad down by road, and do it quick." The events which led to the presence of Mr.
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