WAR IN THE AIR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17290, 4 October 1916, Page 7

WAR IN THE AIR.

THE ZEPPELIN RAID. NO DAMAGE REPORTED. BODIES FROM BURNT SHIP ' Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, October 2. An official message says: Ten airships, one of the largest type, approached London at ten o'clock. Gunfire drove them off, and aeroplanes pursued them. One raider attempted to return from the north-west, and guns and aeroplanes brought the raider to earth m flames at Potter's Bar at midnight. A second airship was driven off at one o'clock. Tho bombs caused no daiuago or casualties. ; The remainder wandered aimlessly over the eastern counties, carrying out promiscuous bombing. •The falling Zeppelin broke into several pieces, tho largest, impaled on a tree, burning. furiously. bodies were found iri a field some distance away. The men had apparently jumped out of the airship. ZEPPELIN APPARENTLY DAMAGED. Reuter's Telegrams. LONDON, October 2. A Reuter report states that a Zeppelin passed an East Coast town very low, as it crippled. The captain of the destroyed Zeppelin was found alive terribly injured. He has since died. Thirteen bodies were taken out of the wreck, which is still burning. TWO CASUALTIES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, October 2. An official message says that in yesterday night's raid a man was killed and a woman injured. A great number of bombs fell over a wide area, with insignificant damage. CAUGHT BY SEARCHLIGHTS. AEROPLANES IGNITE AIRSHIP. (Received October 3, 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 2. The Dutch report that fourteen Zeppelins participated in the raid. Spectators narrate that the Zeppelin at Potters Bar was doomed directly it was caught in a maze of searchlights- It sent out dense clouds of smoke without avail, followed by a shower of bombs, as though it were seeking to lighten itself. Thirty-nino fell harmlessly on a small area. Then an aeroplane, some sav two, was seen approaching, and a brilliant light indicated the ignition of one of the Zeppelin's gasbags. The flames ran along the monster. The blaze was visible over a circuit of sixty miles. As it fell the airship split into three or four pieces. The searchlights never left the airship until it reached the earth. Some of the crew, realising their doom, jumped out of the gondolas. One lived long enc'ugh to ask for water. The other bodies were terribly mangled. Seventeen have already been found- Tho Zeppelin was of tin newest type, presenting a small target and very fast. \

COUNT ZEPPELIN. Dll) NOT TAKE PART IN RAID. AMSTERDAM, October 2. _ Count Zeppelin announced his intention of participating in an air raid, but changed hi£ mind, owing to family pressure. ZEPPELIN DESTROYER. NEW AMERICAN AEROPLANE TESTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received October 4. 12.5 a.m.) NEW YCW'K, October 3. , A Curtiss tenplane, described as a Zeppelin destroyer, has been tested at Buffalo. It attained a maximum speed of 120 miles per liour and rose a thousand feet in a minute.