MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1916, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

■■&> -. ZEPPELIN RAIDS. ! ■ ■' • I ©SEAL GERMAN FICTION. London, Sept. 23. A German official report says: Naval airships dropped bombs on London and strategic places on the Hummer, and at , Sheffield and Nottingham, and caused heavy .fires. :The airships were heavily jbombarded fcy guard ships before they ■ reached the English coast, and were also heavily bombarded during the raid. Two airships-succumbed to enemy fire when over London. The others returned unfUJmaged. The Press Bureau comments that the , Recounts are full of the usual misstate- •■! ments,. No,places of.military importance : jrere damaged. , ANOTHER RAID, •' /DAMAGE UNKNOWN, Received Sept. 26, 7 p.m, London, Sept. 26. Official: Several airship? crossed the feastern and north-eastern coasts (between 10.30 and mi inight. Bombs were . dropped in several places in the northem and north midland counties. The tirships ate now off the south coast. Received Sept. 26, 11 p.m. London, Sept. 26. • ' -Field-Marshal French reports that it is fifjliered six airships visited the northeast and southern counties. There were come casualties and damage. Full reports have not yet been received. Copenhagen, Sept. 26. Fishermen at' Esbjerg report that four Zeppelins were travelling slowly southeast, apparently short of fuel. One was * damaged aft. The Berliner Tageblatt states that the IPrinz Henrio wa9 released and left Zeefonigge convoyed bv German torpedoers. • British aviators attacked and severely damaged the destroyers. Beeeived Sept. 2fi. r>.lo p.m. London, Sept. 25. A bomb pierced the roof of a house in the London district and hung suspended in the rafters. Firemen mounted the foot and extinguished the fuse. THE GERMANS STUNNED. #T LOSS OF THEIR PET ZEPPELINS. Received Sept, 26, 11 p.r£ Geneva, Sept. 26. Nothing has moved the German public for months like the loss of the Zeppelins. The Germans are literally ■tunned.. ' L * Mench raid on krupp/s. Received Sept. 26. 11 p.m. Berne, Sept. 26. The French raid on Essen was dis•Btrous.. Incendiary bombs fired Krupp's ijrorksheds. . S AMERICAN COMMENT. New York, Sept. 25. 'American comment on the destruction Of Zeppelins over England suggests that ' German aerial frightfulness will now be as successfully countered as the submarine frightfulness. The defeat of the airships is declared to prove that, the widely-heralded super-Zeppelins are a failure, their huge size mafcirfc them J more vulnerable as targets for the defending guns.

| HONORING THE BRAVE. ! ' V.C, EXPLOITS. i Received Sept. 2", 12.45 a.m. London, Sept. 2o\ A thirty page Gazette of honors includes Sergeant Claude Charles Castleton, of the Australian Machine-Gun Company, who receives the Victoria Cross for conspicuous gallantrj under the following circumstances: —During an attack on the enemy trenches the infantry were temporarily driven back 'by intense machine-gun fire. Many of the wounded were left on No Man's Land, lying in shell holes, and Castleton went out twice, in face of intense fire, and brought a wounded man in on his back. He was Bringing in a third when he himself was hit in the back and- killed instantly. He set a splendid example of courage and self-saerifife. There are eleven other recipients of Victoria Crosses, including Private All bert Hill, of the Welsh Fusiliers who surrounded twenty of the enemy, attacked them with bombs, killed or wounded a number and tl)en fought his way back to the British lines. i