OFFICIAL NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16666, 26 September 1914, Page 9

OFFICIAL NEWS.

BRITISH AEROPLANES ENGAGED. ZEPPELIN SHEDS ATTACKED. OPERATIONS IN FRANCE. The following cable messages have been received from the High Commissioner : LONDON, September 23 (6.25 p.m.). , Tho Admiralty reports that yesterday British aeroplanes from the naval wing delivered an attack on tho Zeppelin sheds at Dusseldorf. Tho contions of tho flight rendered the raid difficult, tho weather being misty. Lieutenant Collet dropped three bombs on tho Zeppelin sheds, approaching to within 400 ft. The extent of tho damage is unknown. Collet’s machine was struck by a projectile, but all the machines returned safely. In tho event*of further bombs being dropped into Antwerp or other Belgian towns similar measures of reprisal will be adopted. . The operations during tho past three days along an extended front continue in favour of the Allies. The enemy sustained serious repulses. The enemy shows little activity in Domevre district. He evacuated Nomony and'

Arracourt, but holds tho lines south of Woevre. Paris reports that while a German cruiser and two torpedo boats were laying mines in the Baltic, they were sunk by the Russian cruiser Bayan. CAPTURE OF JAROSLAV. LONDON, September 24. The Russians have taken Jaroslav, a fortified town fifteen miles from I’rzemysl, and Wislock, in the Carpathians. The Montenegrins are within nine miles of Searajevo.