Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-01-05
RAID ON GERMANY
zEPPELINs, SUBMARINES, AERO.
PLANES AND BRITISH SHIPS IN
BATTLE OFF cUxHAvEN.
THREE ENGLISH BOATS HIT
Aero Pilot Is Lost at Sea Near Heleo-
Iand-Londc1 Claims All ExpiosiN J
Took Effeet-Teutons Repulsed Foes
Metz and Brussels SheIied.

London, Dec. 29.--An official an
nouncement given by the admiralty on
Sunday describes the most spectacular
battle in the history of warfare, in
which land batteries, warships, sub
marine boats, aeroplsnes, hydroplanes
and Zerpelins were engaged.
The battle is that which resulted
when the combined British sea and
air fleets attacked the German naval
station at Cuxhaven, on the south bank
OF the Elbe's mouth, across from the
entrance to the Kiel canal.
The statement follows:
- "On Friday, December rs, German
warships lying in Schillig roads. OF
Cuxhaven, were attacked b. seven
naval aeroplanes.
THE attack was delivered at day
light, starting from point in the
vicinity of Helgoland.
"The British seaplanes were escort
ed by light cruiser and torpedo
boat destroyer force, with submarines.
AS soon as these hips were seen by
the Germans at Helgoland two Zeppe-
Inns and three or four hostile sea-
planes, acting in conjunction with sew
eral hostile submarines. attacked
them.
"A naval combat ensued between
most modern cruisers on the one hand
and the enemy's air craft and sub
marines on tbs other.
by swift maneuvering the enemy's
submarines were avoided, and the Yep
pelins were easily put to flight by the
guns of the Undaunted and the Are
thusa
THE enemy's Zeppelins dropped
bombs near our ships without hitting
any of them.
1.-THE British ships remained for
three hours eff the enemys cost Six
air pilots were picked up.
Three other air pilots were picked
up later, according to arrangement, by
British submarines which were stand
ing by, their machines being sunk
"One pilot, Flight Commander Hew-
lit, is missing. His machine was seen
wrecked about eight miles from Hell
goland. and his fate is at present un-
known.
THE extent of the damage done by
the British airmen's bombs cannot be
estimated. but all the missiles were
discharged on points of military sig
nificance.
Berlin. via wireless to Sayville. l.
l., Dec. 29.-An attack by British
cruisers, destroyers and hydroplanes
on the German naval base in the North
sea of which Wilhelmshaven and Cux-
haven are important ceIters, Is re-
ported in a statement from the admir-
atty here The attacks we're made
December Is.
The admiralty reports that on De
cember 25 eight British ships made a
dash into a German bay. Hydroplanes
conveyed by them advanced against
the mouths of the German rivers and
hurled bombs & the anchored ships
there and a gas tank near Cuxhaven,
without hitting them or doing any
damage. The hydroplanes were fired
upon and withdrew to the west.
German airships and aeroplanes re-
connoitered against the British forces
and hit with bombs two British de-
stroyers and one convoy. Fire started
on the latter. Fog prevented a con-
tinuation of the fighting"
London. Dec. 29.-English and
French aviators, according to official
announcements issued on Sunday,
have carried out successful aerial at
tacks upon the important aviation
bases of the Germans at Metz and
Brussels.
The aviation hangers at Frescaty.
near Metz, were bombarded and 1t is
believed considerable damage was
done. Bombs and arrows were dropped
upon the railway station at Metz and
upon the military barracks at St.
Privat, just outside the town.
At Brussels y bombs we're dropped
on the Etherbeek airship shed, six of
which were effective. The Germa
hangar was burned.
An unofficial dispatch received by
the Exchange Telegraph company
from Rosendaal says:
1T is rulored here that Zeppelin
was sighted near Newport and was
shot at by the allies and all its occa-
pants killed in the debris of the air
ship as it descended"
With dramatic suddenness the
French avenged the Zeppelin attack
on Nancy, in which two persons were
killed and a number wounded.