SEAPLANES BOMB ZEPPELIN BASE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 173, 22 July 1918, Page 5

SEAPLANES BOMB ZEPPELIN BASE.

TWO AIRSHIPS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED,

(Received 10.45 a.m.) LOKDON, July 21. The Admiralty reports: Aeroplanes from tlie Grand Fleet, operating off tlie Jutland coast on Friday, made two attacks on Zeppelin sheds at Tondern, in Schlcswig. They secured direct hits on three sheds, but owing to anti-aircraft guns and dense smoke it was impossible to ascertain .whether tlie destruction was complete. The airmen were sure that two Zeppelins were destroyed. Four British machines failed to return, three of which landed on Danish territory .—• British airmen in the raid destroyed a large stock of munitions outside the town, and the violent explosions killed many. Two British machines, owing to lack of benzine and motor troubles, landed on the west coast of Jutland. One of the avia-tors. a. Xoxv Zealander, etatod that six German aeroplanes pursued his and two other machines. The latest advices state that two airmen ■were interned; A third landed at Culdagor, and set lire to his machine. Affording to another correspondent, one landed near Rinkjocbing and obtained: petrol, hoping to escape.— (A. and X.Z. and Reuter.)