In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 32, 8 June 1915, Page 5

In the Air

A ZEPPELIN RAID. ON EAST COAST OF ENGLAND. FIVE DEATHS' : FORTY INJURED INCENDIARY BOMBS START FIRES. Unitbd Peeks Association. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, June 7. Zeppelins dropped incendiary explosive bombs along the Coast, cau-ing two fires, five deaths, and injuring forty people HANGAR IGNITED. BRITISH AIRMEN AT BRUSSELS. (Received 8.4 a.m.) London, June 7. British airmen bombed and ignited an airship shed north of Brussels, ZEPPELIN EXPLODED.

ONE USE OF BRITISH BOMB. (Received 8.4 a.m.) London, June 7. Another Britisher bombed a Zeppelin between Ghent and Brussels, and the Zeppelin exploded and was destroyed. GAS FROM ZEPPELINS. Copenhagen, June 7. New poison gas Zeppelins Are furnished with three tanks carrying gas bombs beneath the gondola portion. The crew is able to make a fresh supply during the voyage. Three have been built and several' are building. Amsterdam, June 7. The Germans are using the chief factories at Vilvorde for the manufacture of asphyxiating gases, the factories being protected with anti-air-craft guns. , t London, June 7. The Daily Mail’s Amsterdam cor"espondent says the super-Zeppelins ire provided with an aerial torpedo made of aluminium, sustained by gas, and when fired it is controlled by wireless a great distance, and can be exploded at any point required.

THE ADMIRALTY’S REPORT DETAILS OF THE SUCCESSES. MONOPLANE’S' DARING FEAT. (Received 9 a.m.) London, June 7. The Admiralty states: In a naval flight, Lieutenants' Wilson and Mills bombed an airship shed at Evere at 2.30 this morning. It is not known whether there was a Zeppelin inside, but flames reached a great height and were issuing from both - sides. The pilots returned safely. In a naval flight a sub-Lieutenant at three o’clock attacked a Zeppelin in the air between Ghent and Brussels. At six thousand feet he dropped six bombs' on the airship, which exploded and fell to the ground, where it burned for a considerable time. The force of the explosion turned the Englishman’s Morane monoplane upside down, but he succeeded in righting it. He landed in the enemy’s country, hut was able to restart the engine and returned to the aerodrome safely.