A Zeppelin Brought Down.
AFTER DROPPING DESTRUCTIVE BOMBS
UNDER WHITE \FLAG DECEPTION
(Press Assn.- —Reed. 12.35 a.m.) PETROGRAI), Sept. 15. A Zeppelin, flying at a heght of five hundred feet, approached Vollau, on tlie Prussian frontier.
The Russian artillery damaged three of the Zeppelin's motors. The fourth kept the Zeppelin going, until the infantry opened fire, when the Zeppelin hoisted the white flag.
The infantry then ceased fire, but the Zeppelin dropped four bombs, killing twenty-three and wounidng sixty. The artillery then brought the Zeppelin down, and the eight Germans were captured.
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Northern Advocate, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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