El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-07
BIC ZEPPELIN
ISDISABLEDBY
RUSSIAN Guns
Aircraft Forced to Land, and
Officers and Men Are
Then Captured.
HULL BLOWN UP;
TROPHIES TAKEN

DETROGRAD, Russia, Nov. IA
Russian correspondent tells today
Il the details of the destruction OF
Zeppelin No. 5. A Russian cavalry
brigade with horse battery was pro-
ceedlnE in marching order from vii
lage- near Soldau, in the direction
of suburb
As the brigade was approaching the
frontier Gordon a German airship was
seen steering straight for the Russians
from the direction of Hlava. As the
commander of the battery was at that
moment with the chief of the division
at the tail of the column fire was at
once opened at this enticing target, but
the shots appeared to fall short.
shin Forced to Descend.
The airship was finally disabled, and
compelled to descend within three
miles of the village of Lipovirz. Sew
eral cavalrymen, with the senior Off
Ger of the battery, were sent to receive
the prize but when they reached the
airship they found they had been an
ticipated by a Cossack patrol which
seemed to have sprung out OF the
ground.
The prisoners taken were the com
mander of the Zeppelin, the captain OF
the airship battalion, Gruener, Lieut.
Wilhelm RehlinE. the mechanic, and
four soldiers. One officer and two
lower grades somehow had time TO
hide in the neighbOring village, but
were discovered on the following day.
Lieut.. Rehling had torn off his off
GERS eqaulets in order to conceal his
rank.
Casualties Slight.
Only one officer and soldier were
wounded, but the apparatus had been
badly damaged in the air. The rud
der prOpellOrs, benZine tubes, motors,
and stabilizator had all suffered and
the hull had been pierced in several
places
According to the admission OF Capt.
Gruener, the airship was vitality in
jured by our first discharge, but its
dirigibility was completely destroyed
by the fire from the second position.
When our artillery commander asked,
How could you dare to steer so i'm
pudently direct for our battery?"
Gruener replied that he had more than
once been under cannon fire, and had
always come out successfully.
Hull Blown Up.
The hull was eventually blown up
by the Russian cavalry, but a large
They included an army flag with the
name Zeppelin Five" and the en-
brOidered Prussian eagle insignia of
the order Pour la Nerite," two ma
chine guns, a machine rifle. four mo-
tors, many plans, maps, sketches do
Photographic apparatus and
40 signal rockets.
All the bombs had already been used
Some of them had been thrown on to
Mlava station, where several Russian
soldiers were killed by them.
When the prisoners were escorted
to the staff, and the senior officer of
the battery learned that Capt Grue-
ner had no money with him, he there
and then offered to lend him till the
end Of the war all that he had avail
able, namely, 100 roubles. The Ger
man accepted the offer with thanks.
He wished to give a receipt for the
sum and was greatly touched when he
received the answer that Russian Of
Ulcers were not accustomed to take
such acknowledgements from officers,
even of the enemy. Capt Gruener.
indeed, shed tears at this considera-
ion Not less affected was the me
,hanic on receiving back a photograph
II his wife whom he had married only
/ few weeks earlier