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& all the others following & soon was lost to view but you could hear their Machine Guns fireing continous, I could not say if they caught their victim, After Tea one of our Drivers came home & related an exciteing time he had on his return journey from Ypres Canal with a Train of Empty trucks, when he was nearing a Siding called Arrival Farm about 1 mile from Ypres he noticed 9 Taubes flying towards his Train & coming low down, our Anti Air Craft Guns & Machine Guns were fireing at them. The Driver decided to stop his Train & seek shelter under the Tender of the Engine, as it is about the Safest place from Bombs, As soon as he stopped the first Bomb dropped & exploded covering them in the Cab of the Engine with dirt & pieces of the Bomb struck the Eng in several places leaving marks here & there. They soon made them selves scarce & barely got down & under when several more Bombs dropped all about them on both