RAIDING ZEPPELINS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 19 May 1915, Page 5

RAIDING ZEPPELINS.

|p,CCO^DED;^ARM RECEPTIONS.

(Received Jffay 19. 10.30 a.m.) M . London. May is. The gunners at Dover believe they hit the Zeppelin, which headed for the Channel with its nose canted downwards. Twenty-three incendiary bombs were dropped in a field near St, Maragret's Bay. The Daily News' Dunkirk correspondent says that a French torpedoer fired several shots at a, Zeppelin flying low from-the direction of England. One shot hit the Zeppelin, which crumpled up and dived into the sea near Gravelines. Corpses were afterwards seen floating m the vicinity. Advices from Amsterdam state that it is believed the Ramsgate raider reached Berchan after driving off a pursuing aeroplane from Dunkirk. After attacking Calais "two Zeppelins were, driven off and flew towards Boulogne. A battery at Griznez hit one of the raiders, which turned back. It is reported that a disabled airship fell on the beach two miles from Dunkirk and the crew were made prisoners