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engaged by German anti-aircraft.
Those Huns are altogether too accurate with their black shrapnel balls - I flew through the smoke of two of 'em today directly after their [[Anrsts.?]] As our machines were brand new and there was nothing in the line of activity we remained aloft but half an hour.

Later in the day a patrol of five ventured up but only two got to the lines owing to all sorts of trouble with the new 220 [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] HS Motors i had a leaky gas tank and a broken exhaust pipe and called it quits when I discovered the state of affairs after getting up 4000 feet.