ABUSE OF WHITE FLAG.
BOMB DROPPING ZEPPELIN. Received this day, 12.35 a.m. Petrograd, Tuesday. A Zeppelin, flying 500 feet high, approached Vollau, on the Prussian frontier. Russian artillery damaged three motors, but the fourth kept the Zeppelin going until the infantry opened fire, when the Zeppelin hoisted the white flag The infantry ceased to fire, but the Zeppelin dropped four bombs, killing twenty-three and wounding sixty. The artillery then brought the Zeppelin down and eight Germans were captured.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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78ABUSE OF WHITE FLAG. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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