ANOTHER ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP DESTROYED BY BOMBS.
OUT-MANOEUVRED BY PLUCKY FRENCH AVIATOR
FOLLOWED ACROSS THE FRONTIER AND WRECKED.
(Received August 16, 5.5 p.m.)
Paris, August 15. A Zeppelin airship commenced to make a reconnaissance above Nancy on August 8.
M. Pcrrin, a French aviator attached to the garrison, immediately went out from Nancy and followed the airship across the frontier.
Coming up with the Zeppelin at Chateau-Salins, a German town about 25 miles south-east of Mctz, M- Perrin out-manoeuvred it without difficulty.
Flying upwards he got into position right above the Zeppelin and dropped two bombs upon her. The airship was completely destroyed, and fell to thd ground a mass of shattered wreckage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15689, 17 August 1914, Page 5
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