In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 8 May 1916, Page 8

In the Air

THE RAM) Or! SALONIKA. SUCCESSFUL ZEPPELiNJiUMTiNG. UNir-eO PttKdt> AjSeUOIATION. London, May 5. The Admiralty reports that the Galatea and Phaeton t.L.,;royed a Zeppelin yesterday by gunfire. The airship was apparently scouting.

Admiral De Rebeck reports that the Qeet heavily fired on a Zeppelin that was approaching Salonika, and the aircraft came down ablaze near the mouth of the Yardar river. There wave no survivors. London, May 6. Official: Though tho Galatea and Phaeton severely damaged tho Zeppelin Llf her destruction was completed b\ ;\ submarine which rescued and brought

iui seven oi th \ crow. A German cruiser slightly injured (the latter while returning. I 'Che Daily Chronicle's correspondent at Salonika gives a vivid narrative of the destruction of the Zeppelin. The night was cloudless, and when the raider's coining was announced the city was plunged in darkness. Suddenly the watchers saw a searchlight catch the raider, seven thousand feet over tho gulf, and other searchlights quickly followed. The silvery form of the Zeppelin was visible for a quarter of an hour, ami then the British naval and anti-aircraft guns opened. A hurricane of shells burst ' around the invader, the shooting being wonderfully accurate. One shot was seen to pass practically through the air vessel, and another burst in the centre. The new French incendiary shells lit up .the town in the course of their upward flights, and the naval shells could be followed by these traces. The Zeppelin seemed to lose its bearings and headed seawards, presenting its broadside to the warships. Then two blazing shells struck the tail, which afterwards proved to be incendiary shells from a French aeroplane, which had ascended, despite the darkness, directly the raid was announced, and got above the raider. The Zeppelin's tail dipped, and seemed almost to writhe. She then • dived at an angle of 45 degrees, and the onlookers lost sight of her for lialf-an-hour, until a great flame lit up the sky and there was a dull roar. The Zeppelin had fallen in the Yardar delta, fifteen miles away." Either the bombs had exploded or the crew had Tired the airship. Five unexploded bombs were afterwards found in tho wreckage. capture of Survivors, four officers and eicht men. (Received 8:15 a.m.) 'London, May 7. Admiral Do Itobeck reports that he captured four officers and eight men, tho survivors of the Zeppelin which made an attack on Salonika. ... L 9 DAMAGED IN THE NORTH SEA London, May G. The Daily News 'correspondent at Rotterdam says that fishermen report that the Zeppelin LO was sighted in tho North Sea, flying" very slowly, and apparently badly damaged. ; RAID-ON BittNDISI. { HOSPITALS BOMBED. Rome, May 6. Five Austrian aeroplanes bombed Rrindisi, including (he hospitals, where fchoy killed four patients. THE MARCH OF SCIENCE. WIRELESS ON AEROPLANE?. (Received 10.5 a.m.) London, May 7. Marconi ■ in an interview, said h'.s aeroplane receiving-signal had been so strengthened that now tho machines would bo able to receive wireless messages.