ZEPPELIN RAIDERS ATTACKED
ONE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN SUNK STORIES BY GUNNERS London, May 18. Twenty-three incendiary bombs were dropped in a field near St. Margaret's Bay. Gunners at Dover bolievo they bit a Zeppelin, which headed for the Channel with its nose canted downward.
The "Daily News" correspondent at Dunkirk sa.ys a French torpedo-boat fired several shots at a Zeppelin which was (lying low from the direction of England. Ono shot hit the Zeppelin, which crumpled up and dived into the sea near Gravclines. Corpses were afterwards seen floating in the vicinity. Advices from Amsterdam state that, it in believed the Rhmsgnto raider reached Bernhon after "driving off a pursuing aeroplane from Dunkirk.
After attacking Calais, two Zeppelins were driven off. They flew towards Boulogne. A battery at Cape Gris-nez hit one of the raiders, which turned back. It is reported that the disabled airship fell on the beach two miles from Dunkirk, and that the crow were made prisoners.
ENEMY'S AVIATION GROUND RAIDED
SHEDS AND DEMOLISHED,
London, May 18. The Allies' airmen totally destroyed the German aviation ground at Ghistelles. West Flanders. The sheds and many machines were demolished.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2466, 20 May 1915, Page 5
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191ZEPPELIN RAIDERS ATTACKED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2466, 20 May 1915, Page 5
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