The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-25
Germans on Other Destroyed
Craft Burn to Death.
,Charred COrpses Found Seat
tered About Wreckage.
is zEPPELINS RAID ENGLAND
Report Thirty BritOns Killed
by AerO-BOmbs.
Harvest of Destruction in Nu-
merOus Air COmbats.

London, Sept. 25-With three of
Sermany's biggest and latest types of
zeppelIns brought down on English
soil within as many weeks. Britons to-
day believed London is now more Sc
cure against air raids than ever be-
fore, despite the fact that the last two
/. raids were made with a greater num-
1bers of aircraft than ever before en-
Aployed. Military officials declare that
-the air defenses of London have stood
1.-THE supreme test in repulsing the
fleets of raiders which attacked the
city on the night of September and
Sagain Saturday night
In the first instance an aeroplane
brought one of the super-Zeppelins
1tumbling to the ground in flames. Lat
fest reports indicate that anti aircraft
guns scored the hits on the two big
eairships which were destroyed Satur-
fday night. The latest estimate of
casualties put the number of men,
4Vomen and children killed in the raid
at thirty. One hundred and ten were
injured. OF this number twenty
eight were killed and the nirety-nine
injured in the metropolitan district of
uLondon.
is Airships in Saturday Attack
< Fourteen or fifteen airships took
kpart in the big raid Saturday night,
irthe last official statement to be issued
Shy General French declared. Only
lthree of the Zeppelins approached
-London for an attack, however, and
they were driven off by the anti-air-
E craft guns. The two airships brought
: down fell near the little village of
+ Mangold. Bodies of the crew of one
of the air cruisers were found scat
tered about their burned craft badly
tcharred. Twenty-Five men, compris-
ting the crew of the second, were made
mr. hTra 1orae ,cfa hi
the first to reach the scene of the
wreck and in turn gave them over to
tthe military authorities
Thousands saw the first Zeppelin.
(which was entirely destroyed, fall like
3 a flaming comet thru the Sky Sight
tseers f1ocked to Essex county turnout
1Sunday and today to view the wreck
gage of the big air cruisers. The mo-
Etors and other parts of the Zeppelin
LESS seriously damaged, were gathered
together by members of the royal fly
ing corps, however, for inspection, and
Nsouvenir hunters were kept at a dis
stance.
Residents of the Essex villages
where the raiding monsters were sent
to their doom are absolutely llnmoved
Lhy the visit of the Zeppelins There
was cheering and rejoicing, when the
a-a1rShipS, cOmet-like made their fiery
@descent to destruction. But after the
might OF the raid was over the
eZeppelins lay, each a shattered mass
seof twisted debris. One of the ma
&chines fell within half "a mile of a viii
= lage with a population of barely
more more than 900 Three air
Aships brought to the ground within
Ethree weeks by English gunners seems
ito have instilled in them certain
Nconfidence that they will be protected
no matter what comes
Expressions of commentator for
THE advance in the methods of defense
adopted for London and other Sec
tions of England came from the press
and officials alike today.
French Filters, $50 Mile Trip.
Two French filters made the trip
1from France to Essen, where the
great krupp works are located, a
tourney of more than $50 miles,
and returned safely.
= French reports also declare filters
aof that nation brought twenty-three
German filters to earth in the last two
days. Great Britain adds a claim of
five German aviators brought down.
a total of twenty-eight Berlin makes
the statement that twenty-four allied
machines were shot down-twenty on
1the Somme front The statement from
Berlin admits the loss of six ma
-chines and London admits the loss of
five.
Factories in the districts of Rom
bach and Thionville, in Alsace-Lor-
raine, were targets sor forty-six
bombs, a French report says. Calais
reports the repulse of a Zeppelin
(which was driven off by anti-aircraft
lguns.
Berlin Reports Zeppelin Loss.
Berlin, Sept. 25.-Loss of two Yep
pelins in Saturday nights raid on Eng
sland was officially admitted by the
admiralty today.
Zeps Started Big Fires.
8 Berlin. Sept 25. (via London)-Ex.
-tensive tires We're observed to have
been caused by the Zeppelin lombard