Second Edition In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 27, 6 May 1916, Page 6

Second Edition In the Air

V - DESTRUCTION OF ZEPPELIN. ’ WORK OF LIGHT CRUISER SQUADRON. OFF THE SCHLESWIG COAST. The High Commissioner reports:— London, May 5 (12.35 p.m.) A Zeppelin was destroyed yesterday by a light cruiser squadron off the Schleswig coast. THE USUAL BERLIN VERSION. [Tlmxap Pemm Awsmoiitiow.) Loudon, May 5. A Berlin communique' says: “Oar naval airships on Tuesday night bombed the factories, smelting furnaces, and railways at Middlesborough, Stockton and Sunderland, the fortifications at Hartlepool, and British warships on the Firth of Forth. “All returned safely except the L2O.

which was driven on to tlie cliffs at Stavanger by a strong wind, tbe entire crew being rescued.” The Press Bureau comments that these exaggerations and misstatements are of the usual kind. THE POWER OF THE AIR. EX‘NEW ZEALANDERS' VIEWS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) London, May 5. Mr-Alena Baker, organiser of the Malayan .air squadron, an ex-New Zealander who settled in the States twenty-five years ago, has arrived. He said he firmly believed that the Power which commanded the air would command the world. He hopes that every unit of the Empire would eohtribute to the mighty . Imperial air fleets. f f . ZEPPELIN DESTROYED BY BRITISH CRUISER. (Received 10.10 a.m.) Loudon, May 5. Official.—Yesterday a British ,light cruiser destroyed; ia Zeppelin on till* Schleswig coast. .

THE STAVANGER ZEPPELIN. DESTROYEDTC^A VOID DANCER. (Received 10.10 a.m.) London, May 5. Steyangq- reports that, as the wrecker ' L2O tyas rolling 1 > soH dierCespfeded the envelope with shots at fifty yards,’ when there was a great detonation.