EVERY AIR RAID.
ZEPPELIN AND FIVE TAU.BES
DESTROYED
REJOICINGS AT BRUSSELS
(Received Juno 14, 0.30 a.m.)
Paris, June 13
An eye-witness of ilie bombing of the airship shed at Evere states that tho building contained a Zeppelin, and not a Parseval.
The Germans tried to got the airship out, but it had only emerged a few yards .when, the aviator dived to within a few hundred \ards of tho abed, and dropped three bombs' which exploded ivith a terrific noise. A i'tnv seconds later ihe airship blew np with a still louder report.
The accomplishment of the feat was tho signal for a great outburst of joy in Brussels. Tho Germans lost their heads and called up troops, and cavalry chiireed up tho Boulevard Lambermont, whore 10,000 people were
assembled
Bpfcidos tho Zeppelin five Taubea in the shed were burnt. Nineteen German soldiers were killed.
Tho Germans are now raining fines on noisy ro-joicers.
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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13793, 14 June 1915, Page 5
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154EVERY AIR RAID. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13793, 14 June 1915, Page 5
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