CRIPPLED AIR RAIDED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2869, 6 September 1916, Page 5

CRIPPLED AIR RAIDED

SEQUEL TO THE BIG ZEPPELIN H • ATTACK , j GERMAN REPORTS ; (E-euter's Telegram,).. : i London! September 4. j Official. —There is the strongest rea- j son to believe that another. Zeppelin • -j was seriously damaged. . • ~ • j CRIPPLED ZEPPELIN SIGHTED. -/'-j Australian-New Zealand Gable Association. ' London, September 4. j 'An innkeeper has reported that a. j Zeppelin was seen froin an East Coast . ] port drifting towards the sea in. a per- j pendicular position. . | Coponhagen, September 4. ! Fishermen, at Esbjerg report that they saw five Zeppelins on Sunday fore- -j noon off the Sylt, going very slowly. The crew were throwing articles over- j board to keep them afloat. One Zep- ; pelin was severely damaged, and tho i iishermen believe that .it fell into the sea between tho Sylt- and Schleswig coast. AN ENORMOUS PILGRIMAGE TO VIEW THE BATTERED 'WRECK. ' j (Rcc. September 5, 6.10 p.m.) : . ;.. j London, September 4. : j Though half a aitillion people viewed j] tlto destroyed Zeppelin on Sunday, tho pilgrimage continues ifo increasing num- - j bers, including many overseas, troops. j Sixteen bodies, comprising ■ the crow, j roasted beyond recognition, in fantas* . ! tic attitudes, were covered by a tar- , i paulin and later reverontly removed to i tho local church. Two machine-guns j wero salved by tho Flying Coi ps, which .. | packed tho wreckage, and arc remov- ' I ing it. ' ' . j GERMAN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT . London, September 4. ' An , official message !from Berlin j states: Several airship ' detachments v . bombarded iho fortress of London, 'tho i fortified places.at Yarmouth and Har- , ■ ] wicli, and factories and places of stra- j togic importance in the south-eastern / j counties, everywhere with good effects. . j Violent fires and explosions were oh- j served. Notwithstanding a strong boni- : .. J bardmcnt, all our machines returned i undamaged. A number of army airships simultaneously .attacked southern i England. _ .■ - ! A later Gflrman communique admits j that an airship fell to'tho earth, "a? j the result of the enemy's firo." ■; BRITISH OFFICIAL COMMENT. ! London, September 4. : Tho Press Bureau comments: "The . ;.j damage done was practically nil; thero were no conflagrations of any .import-;• ' anco, and no explosions." '/

AIR RAID ON GERMAN SHIPYARDS ENEMY'S BARE AT HOBOKEIs • I BOMBARDED. . : London, September 'I. The Admiralty announces: '.'Our naval aeroplanes on Saturday afternoon successfully bombarded the sbipbuild- j ing yards at Hoboken (near Antwerp), , i A largo squadron of our machines on Sunday effectively bombarded ani enemy , ; aerodrome at Ghistelles (six miles south '■ j of Ostend); All returned safely.',' AERIAL" LOSSES IN AUGUST. London, September 4. . ] According to British, French, and 2 German communiques ,189 aeroplanes were brought down during August, in- ' ] eluding 121 German, of which tho Brit- j j ish accounted for 33. ' .