GERMANS LOSE A ZEPPELIN AND AEROPLANE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16021, 13 September 1915, Page 8

GERMANS LOSE A ZEPPELIN AND AEROPLANE.

ALLIED AVIATOR WRECKS THE AIRSHIP.

MACHINE THAT BOMBED HOSPITALS BROUGHT DOWN.

(Received September 12. 7.30 p.m.)

Paris, September 11

Amsterdam reports received from Brussels state that an allied aviator wrecked the Zeppelin mentioned in the cables to-day. The crew perished-

A German aeroplane, adorned with 16 iron crosses, was forced to descend at Calais, the petrol tank having been pierced by bullets. The machine and its two occupants were captured.

German aeroplanes dropped bombs on Compiegne, aiming particularly at the hospitals. There were no casualties. The French brought down one aeroplane, making the occupants prisoners.

The High Commissioner sent the following cable from London on Friday:— "There is an unconfirmed Amsterdam statement that a Zeppelin, returning from ft raid, was destroyed near Brussels on Wednesday morning. The airship fell on a house and exploded. The crew were killed."

CONTRAST IN FRENCH AND GERMAN METHODS.

BOMBS ON SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. Paris, September 10. Six German warplanes dropped 30 bombs indiscriminately at Nancy to-day, causing some damage. Two persons were killed and ten wounded, while several casualties occurred in the suburbs. The aeroplanes were pursued, and one raiding machine was damaged. An official message from Berlin'states that a naval airship successfully bombarded the Russian Baltic forts and railways, and returned without being damaged. Allied airmen dropped bombs on the aerodrome at Ghent. The barracks were destroyed and 103 killed. A communique states that French aeroplanes bombarded the mines and batteries in the Nonnenbruek Wood railway station at Lutterbach, near Mulhausen, in Alsace, and dropped 30 shells on the railway station at Grand Pre, north of the Forest of Argonne.