New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-29
BRITISH FELL
J zEPPELNS
Thousands See Great
Air BattleS-BOmbS
Dropped in London
BY ARTHUR 8. DRAPER
tBy Cable to The Tribunal


London, Nov. 2s.-The twenty-see-
ond Zeppelin raid OF the year gave the
Royal Flying Corps the opportunity
early this morning TO add two more
Of the giant birds TO their bag, which
has enfolded six Of the monsters since
the lst Of September.
Close on the heels Of that raid came
another. when a single aeroplane to-
day winged It's way to London and
dropped six bombs This was the cap
ital's first experience with q daylight
air invasion and it caused lot Of ex-
citement.
Neither raid accomplished much in
the way Of damage. The Zeppelins
dropped 100 bombs; one woman died Of
shock and five men. seven women and
four children were injured. Nine per-
sons were injured in tho plane raid
on London, but no military damage Of
importance was achieved.
London Is Rejoicing
The cost TO the Germans was the
loss of the two airships and their
crews, all of whom. according 70 the
latest reports. perished in the sea into
which the flaming monsters fell. Lon
don, gratifed at her air defences. is re
joicing tonight
Moreover, the plane which raided
London may have been caught.
"The commodore of Dunkirk has been
informed by the French authorities that
they brought down an airplane at 2:f5
o'clock Tuesday afternoon, carrying two
naval lieutenants and with large
scale map of London aboard" says an
Admiralty announcement.
The fifth and sixth Zeppelins were
brought down in battles even more
thrilling than those in which their pre-
decessors were destroyed. Last night
beautifully clear and starry. feet of
the big air cruisers approached the
north coast of England for the first
raid in almost two months. 1t was near
midnight when the whirring Of the en-
Rines first revealed the presence OF a
raider over Durham.
Almost Immediately the airship was
picked out of the darkness by the
tentacles of several searchlights. As
she was held transfxed in the steady
beams the snti-aircraft guns were
brought quickly into action.
Raider Tries to Escape
The first shots found the range and
shells began to explode all around the
Zeppelin. Spectators saw her twist and
turn, trying to escape the rain of ex.
plosives. The fourth shot evidently
found its mark. The nose Of the grea,
craft dipped forward at an angle o.!
nearly 40 degrees.
Righting herself almost instantly
however. the stricken bird made swiftly
off toward the sea, with a British avis-
tor darting around her, maneuvring 10
get into position to send home the final
blow. The sesrchlights still held her
on her swift course. Not three min
utes after she had turned tail the air
ship was struck a mighty blow by an
other shell. IL was mortal wound.
As the spectators gazed skywsrd. en-
thralled by the spectacle, tiny glow
appeared, like the lighted end OF a
cigarette. Then. suddenly, the entire
structure burst into raging mass OF
flame. lighting up the country for miles
around. The iaring torch plunged, end
over end, into the sea and was swal-
lowed up with a great Kissing sound
Drops Bombs Into Darkness
Even more spectacular was the death
of the second Zeppelin, witnessed BY
cheering thousands on the east coast
This ship appeared of the coast shortly
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