WINGED WARFARE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 87, 9 May 1916, Page 6

WINGED WARFARE.

ZEPPELINS OVER YORKSHIRE. TUESDAY NI'G-'HT'S VISIT. LONDON, May :}. Two Zeppelins on Tuesday night dropped six or eight bombs in two areas of a Yorkshire town. One fell in the middle of the- road, leaving the buildings untouched. Other bombs fell in a neighbouring village. BOMBS ON DEAL. VISIT BY AERO PLANK. LONDON, May ■'>. Ofiicial: An enemy aeroplane dropped six bombs on the Deal railway station in the afternoon. Several houses were also damaged. The High Commissioner reports: A hostile aeroplane visited Deal this afternoon from the direction of Ramsgate. It dropped six bombs on the railway station, and badly damaged several houses. The aeroplane made off, flyingabove the clouds, pursued by our aircraft. Two men and one woman were injured. No one was killed. ZEPPELIN WRECKED BY STORM. LONDON, May 4. Zeppelin L2O was destroyed by a storm at Stavanger. Several of the crew were killed. A later Stavanger telegram.states that when the Zeppelin struck a hillside most of the crew were able to jump out, though several suffered broken limbs. Sixteen of the crew have since been made prisoners. Three men remained on board till the last moment, and threw parts of the machinery overboard. The survivors attribute the disaster to lack of benzine. CHRISTI'ANIA, May 4. As Zeppelin L2O neared the coast six of her crew jumped into the sea. Boats went out and rescued the commander and some seamen. The airship was caught in a storm and driven against the hillside. The afterbody broke near the after cabin and fell to earth. Spectators saw some of the crew jump out, or else they were hurled out. The remainder of the Zeppelin then rose. Finally it broke in two, and fell into the Hafrs Firth, where a torpedo boat rescued three of the crew, who still remained. The fate of the rest of the crew is not known. THE BIGGEST TYPE. UHRISTTANIA, May i. L2O is of the largest type ol: Zeppelin, being 050 feet long and 80 feet in diameter, fitted with six motors of 800 horse-power. Captain Stabberf, her commander, on being interviewed, said he had (inly 10 pints of petrol when the roast of Norway Was sighted,

TUESDAY'S RAID. TOO MUOII WIND. LONDON, May 4. Reports from Stavanger (Norway) state that the survivors of Zeppelin L2O declare that the raiders of the British east coast on Tuesday were compelled to relinquish their attacks. Tliey explain that L2O, owing to lack of benzine, was unable to accompany the others homeward, the wind driving her eastward. 100 BOMBS DROPPED. NUMBER. OF CASUALTIES. IX HOUSES DAMAGED. LONDON, May 4, Ofiicial: The Zeppelin raiders on Tuesday six. Reports from Rattray Head to Norfolk indicate that there was a greater uum'ber off the coast. One hundred bombs were dropped. The casualties number six men and three women killed, and 20 men and eight women injured. Eighteen houses were damaged. The raiders only twice eame within the range of our anti-aircraft guns. LOST HER PREY. CliftJSTl AN I'A, May 4. A French cruiser closely chased Zeppelin L2O to Stavanger. GERMANY'S EXAGGERATIONS. THE USUAL KIND. LONDON, May 5. A Berlin communique states: "Naval airships on 'Tuesday night .dropped bombs on factories, smelting furnaces and railways at Middlesbrough, •Stockton and Sunderland, the fortifications at Hartlepool and British warships in the Firth of Forth. All returned I safely except 'L2O, which was driven to Stavanger by the strong wind. The entire crew w;is rescued." The Press Bureau comments: "The exaggerations and mis-statements in the communique are of the usual kind." ANOTHER ZEPPELIN WRECKED. BROUGHT DOWN BY CRUISERS. LONDON, May 5. Ofiicial: Yesterday a British light Cruiser squadron destroyed a Zeppelin off the Schleswig coast. The Admiralty reports that the Galatea and the' Phaeton destroyed a Zeppelin yesterday by gunfire. The airship was apparently scouting-. ANOTHER MACHINE LOST. EFFECTIVE WORK BY FLE'ET. NO SURVIVORS. SALONIKA, May o. A Zeppelin which raided Salonika was heavily shelled, and is reported to have been destroyed. The destruction of a Zeppelin is confirmed. Of her crew of .'lO only one escaped. Admiral de Robeck reports that the fleet, heavily fired on a Zeppelin which was approaching Salonika, and the airship came down ablaze near the mouth of the Vardar River. There are no survivors.