WAR IN THE AIR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16807, 17 March 1915, Page 8

WAR IN THE AIR.

A DESTROYED ZEPPELIN.

By TeUgxupJr—Pros? Association—'Copyriglii, LONDON, March'-15. Somo newspapers consider- that fill© Zeppelin referred to in yesterdays cablegrams is the Zeppelin mentioned in n message on March 8.

A message published yesterday said: The. Daily Exchange’ reports that two French and two British aeroplanes

brought down a Zeppolin in Belgium. Twenty-one occupants wero killed and i twenty seriously injured.’' i A message on March 8 from Amsterdam said:—“Zeppelin L 8 was descending; owing to engine trouble, when it * . washed into somo trees. The airship nroko in two, forming a ‘ V.’ Seventeen of those on board were killed and several wounded.. The damage to the Zeppelin is irreparable.” “SHOT THEM ALL DOWN.” PARIS, March do. ;■ Two hundred Germans in the midst iff. an engagement at Hagelbrouek off .wed to surrender.

German machine guns behind shot them all down.

AMERICAN AIRMEN.

FIGHTING WITH THE .FRENCH; “ Times ” and Sydney “ Sun ” Services. LONDON, March 15.

Paris reports that Clen-Curtis and three other American airmen have enlisted in tho French Army. .