AERIAL WARFARE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2230, 17 August 1914, Page 6

AERIAL WARFARE

6ERMAN ZEPPELIN DESTROYEE BY FRENCH BOMBS (Reo. August 16, 5.5 p.m.) 'a <- „ ~ Paris ' August 15. A lierman Zeppelin airship commenced fl T £?T S v™ tixmSuvT on Augut? B, and M. Pcrnn, an anator attache! to the garrison, immediately wont out and SSmTW thß mttSSt 3* nnd the airship fell a mass of shattered wreckage near Chateau SaW tnenh? four miles east of Nancy A number of French aviators have flown jnto Alsace, Hawing down mesfi^nf"' 1 * aCCUrat9 SCColult s t>f the THREE AEROPLANES BROUGHT DOWN. "" BELGIAN ARTILLERT WORK. * ' ~t Brusse ls, August 11. 1 Jte 7S Fa l noi *" announces <L1 oglan "t'Hery brought down three German aeroplanes which Tvero flying over »wt tie scene of the battle between Two of the aviators <R al ' d the thlrd ton"/ » AN EXCITING CHASE. FRENCH AVIATOR ESCAPES. IMs reported that a whe was reconnoitring at Lorraine was pur (sued by two larger German machu.es carrying' three armed men. After an ex citing chase the Frenchman escaped «,. Z?™™ 01 , carrying the Frencr flag flow over Vesoul and Lure, two townof the fortress of Belfort, which guard* '.^ m^ ass fr( "" Upper Alsace, and droppix ,' They did no important damage. Tlk trtTman aviator was put to flight by j fcolley from the gendarmes AIRSHIP OVER NORTH SEA, 'AEROPLANE DESCENDS IN HOLI LAND. . Amsterdam,-August M. A bmm airship was sighted goinj ' east over the North Sea. ' ' , A German aeroplane met with an en pine troublo, and was compelled t< , descend in. Dntch temtorv. Tho two.avi etors woto arrested. WATCHING FOR AIR-CRAFT. COLOGNE PILLED WITH DREAD. ' ttj i- *i_ f £ r , is ' Au S U6t MIn Botlm, Antwerp, Cologne, and othe largo cities the churoh towers have beei fitted np as guard stations to watch fo aeroplanes. Light guns point to tho sfr Bide by mdo witb. the steeples: In th pvcniiig Colognq is plunged in darkness nnd the sty is illumined by searchlights Pear of Prenohi airmen Has filled tho popu lace with nervous droad.-{"Times"-Syd »ey 'Sun" Services.)