ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAIDER BROUGHT DOWN

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 236, 3 October 1916, Page 5

ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAIDER BROUGHT DOWN

FALLS TO EARTH NORTH OF LONDON. «. WHOLE CREW PERISHES AND CRAFT WRECKED. WSIGWHTCAICT DAMAGE BT TEW RAIDERS. (Eeceived 11.30 aan.) LONDON, October 2. An official report states that ten airships crossed the East Coaet between 9 pjn. and midnight on Sunday. One, _ raider of the largest type, approached London at 10 o'clock, but gunfire drove it off. Aeroplanes pursued the raider, which attempted to return from the north-west, but guns and aeroplanes brought the raider to earth in flames at Potter's Bar, a village ten miles north of London, at midnight. A second airship was driven-off at 1 o'clock. During the raid one man was killed and one woman injured. A great number of bombs were dropped over a wide area, but the damage was insignificant. With the exception of the two which attempted to tieach. London the raiders wandered aimlessly over the Eastern counties promiscuously dropping The Zeppelin which was brought down broke into several pieces, the largest feeing impaled on a tree, where it burned furiously. Sis: bodies were found in a field some distance »tot. The men had apparently jumped out of tie airship. Amsterdam advices state that Count Zeppelin, who recently announced his intention of participating in an air raid, has now changed his mind under family pressure. TENTH ZEPP DESTROYED THIS YEAR. INTENSE GIABE CAUSED BY _3_,_____%G MASS. f"Tho Times."} LONDON, October 2. The Zeppelin brought down near London yesterday was the tenth airship destroyed this year. Spectators in the south of London saw a Zeppelin flaming in the northern sky. It quickly expanded into a glowing mass, in which the framework showed distinctly. The destruction of the airship cast a glare for miles around so intense that it illuminated the south of London.