ELEVEN AIRSHIPS IN ENGLAND

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14548, 23 October 1917, Page 5

ELEVEN AIRSHIPS IN ENGLAND

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(Received Oct. 23, 1.35 a.m.) E.cntfen, Oct. 22. Apparently eleven airships wow. enKago.d in the raid, yf. which "eight rcacli-

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Ed France. Three others retired vi 3 Holland. _ The airship reported disabled ovei* Toulon was almost vertical, aud disappeared in. the Mediterranean. It ia believed that it fell into the sea. Tho French aviators were compelled to abau-. don the pursuit owing to tiie approaching night. The Zeppelins were the largest yet seen. . Some must have been in the air foe thirty hours, travelling 1200 miles; .It is estimated that whereas there were eighty casualties in-England,, tho Germans lost 141 killed or taken* pri, sonei*.