ZEPPELINS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2445, 26 April 1915, Page 5

ZEPPELINS

SEEN NEAR BRITISH COAST

London, April 23. Tho military observed Zeppelins five miles from Xeweastle-on-Tyne.

Two Zeppelins arc reported to have been seen on the Northumberland coast near Blyth.

Four British aeroplanes na*e gone to fWiHHHJIiO'H: Ut, the woutk of tho Rivef

there are the seaports of North and South Shields and the watering-place of Tynemouth. The entranco to tno river is guarded by long sea walls, and all the way up td Newcastle, 10 miles, the banks of the river are crowded with engineering works and shipbuilding establishments. The workers at these places reside in the towns of Jarrow, Hobburn, Wallsend, Walker, and Gateshead. Among tlis best-known T.yne firms of shipbuilders and ongine-build-ers are Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend; Palmers Shipbuilding Company, Yarrow; Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Hebburn, iind Parsons .Marine Turbine Company, Wallsend. At Newcastle are to be found the biggest works of all, those of Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., which occupy a frontage of well over a mile on the river bank. II»re shipbuilding is carried on by thousands of men, who at present are toiling day and niglit. The river at Newcastle is not wide, probably not more than « quarter of a mile, and this is oncroachfld on everywhere by wharves and vessels building, discharging, or loading.]

NO ATTACK MADE. (Reo. April 20, 3.30 p.m.) London, April 24. The Zoppeltns returned seawards and made no attack.

GERMAN AERODROME DAMAGED BY RUSSIANS. Potrograd, April 23. A Russian airship dropped bombs on a transport column at PloCk; also on German boats on the Vistula. Two Russian dirigibles dropped bombs oil the railway station _at Mlawa and the aerodrome at Sauniki, south-east-ward of Plock, badlv damaging both.