BRILLIANT AIR RAIDS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 222, 8 June 1915, Page 5

BRILLIANT AIR RAIDS.

BY BRITISH AIRMEN. « ~'• ' AN ENEMY SHED DESTROY ED. ZEPPELIN BOMBED IN MIDAIR A COMPLETE WRECK i AIRMAN'S THRILLING EXPEDIENCE. '•.'■■ (Reed. 9 a.m.) LONDON, June 7, The Admiralty states that nara3 flight Lieuts. Wilson and. Mills bombed an airship shed at Evere at 2.30 tbis morning. It is not known whether wasra Zeppelin inside, bnt the flames rescheo a great height, issuing from boUt sides. The pilots returned safelj\ A Naval Plight Sub-Heutenar;t at 3 this morning attacked a Zeppelin >n between Ghent and from a hedgiht of 6000 feet. He dropped six. bombs on the airship, wbir.fi' exploded and fell to the ground arse! burned for a considerable Urn-?, The force of the explosion turned the Englishman's Morane Monoplane upside down, but he succeeded In ing it, and landed in the enemy'? COBS* try. He was able to restart his engine, and he returned to the acre drome safely. MANUFACTURE OP MUNITIONS, STATEMENT BY LLOYD GEOKGE. BRITAIN AWAKENING TO ■■» ITER DANGER. • i\' LONDON, June 7. Mr. Lloyd George stated to a eotrc•pondent: I believe that things are go» ing all right, I feel that the machine is beginning to move. Mr. Lloyd George has been consulting the leaders regarding the score and powers of the new Ministry. Hugo new contracts for high-explosives and shells have already been placed. A plan is afoot m Manchester to mobilise 500 superannuated engineers, formerly shell-makers, also to utilise another 500 skilled meehanics who nrs now pursuing other occupations. A Glasgow citizen force is providing; night shifts for maki'iig shells after the ordnary day work is .finished. AT CHANAX. SMALL EFFECT OF 2,0(70 SHELLS, FORCING OF THE NARROWS. LONDON, June ?. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Chanak says a neutral army offi&ci estimates that 2,000 shells fell in Chscak when the Allied fleet tried t<> fores the Narrows, yet only 20 were killed' and 52 wounded in the forts. When ore sees the fifty Sineh guns mounted above the narrow passage, the wonder is that the- Allied fleet suffered so little. The Germans are supremely satisfied witlr the outlook so far as the Narrows are concerned, but diminishing supplies of ammunition is causiiig anxiety. STEAMER AND TRAWLER SIH'NLONDON, June 7. A submarine sank the steamer Dor nett Head and the trawler Porsimiiic-IT, north of Scotland. The crews were saved. j^. BRITISH CASUALTIES. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S .REPORT. LONDON, Jimc 1. Army officers killed, 8; gas killed. 3?" wounded, 15; gassed, 3; missing. C ; prisoners, 9. Men killed, 621; gas killed, 4: v.-cur-ded, 2274; gassed, 35; missing, -< : -\ * In the Dardanelles: Naval c";.>. ri killed, 1; wounded, 1; men kilk-d, •?"';' wounded, 143; missing, 13.