ZEPPELIN DESTROYED BY RUSSIANS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2370, 28 January 1915, Page 5

ZEPPELIN DESTROYED BY RUSSIANS

THE WHOLE OF THE GREW TAKEN PRISONERS. i 1 'lhe Prime Minister has received the following message from the High Commissioner:— London, January 27, 0.50 a.m. Petrograd reports that on Monday a Zeppelin appeared above Libau (a port on the Baltic, about 125 miles north of Konigsburg) and managed to drop 0 bombs on ail undefended part of the town, but after being fired at by the forts it fell into the water, and small craft destroyed the Zeppelin and took tho crew prisoners. AMERICA'S SHIP PURCHASE BILL DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION COLLAPSES UNITED STATES OPINION STRONGLY AVERSE TO THE MEASURE rxr t.' _i , London, January 26. n;n • k! 'tu 1 x -J 6B the Democratic opposition to the Ship Purchase measure s co '' :l P sccJ i a caucus having decided to support the Mr. W. C. Bedfield, Secretary to tho Department of Commerce in "addressing a national convention of foreign trade, said it had been advertised all over tne United States that there would be trouble if tho Government bo"o®t Gorman ships. Tho enemies of Germany woutd regard tfiom as Germans, arid tney would be declared as interned. Ho added that in tho .United Stafes opinion was strongly averse to the Government buying ships in toto, and handing over between six and nine million pounds, which would mean giving a great direct assistance to one of the belligerents, antf might readily bo construed as a direct breach of neu*