ZEPPELIN DESTROYED BY BRITISH AVIATOR.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 133, 8 June 1915, Page 4

ZEPPELIN DESTROYED BY BRITISH AVIATOR.

AIRSHIP vSHED IN BEUai'H

BURNT.

RAID ON EAST COAST OF KSi;-

LAND

(.Received June S, 9 a.m.*

LONDON, Jsuk- 7. The Admiralty states nuvai Flight-Lieu ts. Wilson and "Mills bombarded an airship s,hed ac Kvore at 2.30 this morning. It is not ktrnwu whether there was a Zeppelin sitsid*-. The flames reached to a great Ltiuht. issuing -from both sides. The [>itt>L«. returned safely.

Naval Flight-sub-Lkut. \V;:rtien>n"i. at thi-ee o'clock, attacked a Zeppelin in the air between Ghent and Brussels. At 6000 feet he dropped six. bombs on the airship, which €*xi4»k!v«*l and fell to the ground. It burned tor a considerable time. The i'om^or ih«* explosion turned\ the Englishman's Morane monoplane upside dbw.it- H*» succeeded in righting it and land«-d *"t the enemy's country. He ivus able to restart the engine, and ivrnruMi to the aerodrome in safety.

Zeppelins dropped inccndtj»rr and explosive bombs on the &;>? i'oasr ot England. Two fires started. Kiv«peoplo were> killed and 40 injv.rfvJ-