The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-06-03
LONDON IS RA|DED
T. BY ZEPPELIN FLEET
Newspapers Warned to Suppress
News of Attack.
VISIT OCCURS AT MIGHT
Damage Caused by Bombardment Is
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. viii Be Is
sued by Press 5ureau-PoIa
Attacked by Italians.

London, June 1.--Zeppelins passed
over the outlying districts of London
last night, according to official an
nouncement of the press Bureau made
shortly after midnight.
The press bureau appends the fol-
lowing note to it's bulletin:
Further particulars will be issued
as soon as collected and collated."
The bureau then reminds the news
papers OF London that mo statement
must be published dealing with places
In the neighborhood of London
reached by aircraft, or the course sup
posed to have been taken by them.
The admiralty, In communique, will
give all the news which properly can
be published"
This intimation is published to ex-
plain the absence of more detailed re-
ports.
(From the above, which was all the
censor would permit to pass to the
cables up to late hour, 1t would ap-
pear that the long-dreaded Zeppelin
raid on London had occurred and
that the British admiralty is making
every effort to minimize the alarm.)
Italians 6ombard PoIa.
Rome, June Italy has answered
the Austrian aerial bombardments of
Venice. An Italian dirigible few
over Pola, the Austrian naval base
on the Adriatic, at night and lombard
I'd the town, causing considerable
damage.
The arsenal was set afire by one
bomb and the railroad station was
damaged by another The oil reser-
voirs and gasoline launches in the
harbor also were the targets Of the
Italian airmen. whose every bomb ex-
ploded, according to an official an
nouncement by the war Office.
Austrian antiaircraft guns fired
upon the raiding dirigible, but II sue
ceded in escaping.
Following this blow at Austria
biggest seaport an Italian torpedo
boat fiotilla steamed up the Gulf of
Trieste and bombarded the shipyards
at Monfalcone. the key of Trieste"
under a heavy fire from the Austrian
coast batteries. The flotilla's com
mander reported to the war Office that
eral barges laden with -four having
been sunk, The Italian vessels, &C
cording to the official statement, es.
capped unchanged
Monfalcone is the port for which,
together with Gorlitz, the Italian ar.
my is struggling as the first move
ment in the capture of Trieste.
While the war Office report makes
no mention OF the land fighting along
the frontier, dispatches from the front
and General Cadorna's official dis.
patches make it clear that the Italian
army while momentarily checked in
the advance on Trieste by the Austri-
an Notifications, is continuing its
march on Trent.
On the Trentino-Tyrol front the
army has progressed seven miles be.
yonds the forts of Luzerna, which
were destroyed and occupied yester.
day, and the Alpine regiments are at.
lacking the forts on the plateau OF
Lavarone.
Advance in TrentIno.
London, June while declaring
that the Italian army's progress into
Austria has been checked. the official
statement received from Vienna indi.
Gates that the Italians have occupied
from ten to fifteen miles OF territory
in the Trentino.
An artillery duel along the coast
near the border is also reported.
Dispatches from Athens say the
Italian ambassador, Garroni, has left
Constantinople for Rome.