The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-02-22
Big Aerial Craft Comes to Grief
and Most OfCrew Thought Lost
GERMAN OFFENSIVE On 4-MILE
FRONT RESULTS IN REPULSE.
Presence of Allied Submarine In BOs-
phOrus Throws COnstantinOple Into
State OF CONSERVATION.

Another OF Germanys big Zeppelin
airships has come to grief, and it is
probable that some if not all of its
crew perished, as it was enveloped in
flames as it fell to the earth, a victim
of an enemy shell fired from French
anti-aircraft gun,
The Paris official communication re
ports that the airship was southwark
bound from the region OF St. Meme
hould when the French guns at Re
vigny began Smelling it, At last one
of the missiles found its mark and the
huge aircraft took fire and fell in the
vicinity of Brabant-Le-Roi.
The Germans near Lihons, to the
south OF the Comme river, have met
with repulse at the hands of the
French in an attack extending over
about four and one-third miles. The
offensive movement was preceded by
heavy bombardment and clouds of
asphyxiating gas. When the German
infantry endeavored to come out OF
their trenches for the attack, however,
the barrier fire and the fire of the
French riflemen stopped them every
where, according to Paris.
The Germans in Artois were pre-
vented from occupying the crater of a
mine by a strong counter offensive
of the French. In Champagne, the for
est of the Argonne, and in the entire
region of Verdun, there has been much
artillery activity in which Paris claims
considerable execution was accom-
plished by the French gamers. The
Germans report additional repulses of
British prenade attacks against cap
tured positions along the User canal
and also the putting down of an en-
tente allied offensive along the Lens
Arras road
Numerous fights in the air between
German and French aviators have TAX
en- place. Paris reports that several
of the German machines were brought
down by the fire of the French air
men. Aeroplane raids have been car
ried out by French and British aero
plane squadrons, notably on the Ger
man aviation field at Habsheim and
: Mulhauseh, and on a munitions fac
tory at Pagny- -Sur-M -Moselle, British air
; craft bombed the town of Don, south
5 west of Lille.
There has been little fighting on the
: eastern and Austro-Italian fronts. The
e Albanians fighting for the Teutons are
( reported to have reached the Adriatic
| Sed west Oh hdfdyd- 1ulb WOulu luUl
= cate that the Austro- -Hungarians and
: their allies have completely surround
S ed Durazzo.
In Asia Minor the Russians are per
e sistently following the Turks who fled
e from Erzerum, and also are pushing
S their way northward from the captur-
e ed fortress to the Black sea, with the
e purpose of establishing a base there
g for their warships and transports. Bit
I lis on Lake Van has been captured by
a the Russians.
s A Turkish power station on the OF
:. toman front east of the Suez cana
f has been blown up by British avia
tor
Again Constantinople has beer
thrown into a state of CONSERVATION
over the presence of an entente allies
submarine in the Bosphorus, accord
n ing to an unofficial report. The un
v derwater boat is said to have torpe
doed six transports loaded with muni
tions and one tug.
u An entente allies submarine passe'
IS through the Dardanelles on Tuesda,
last, reached the Bosphorus and tor
pedoed one tug and six transport
I, laden with munitions, according to al
g Athens dispatch to Reuters Telegram
e company. The presence of the hostil
= submarine caused a panis at Constan
:. tinople.-Boise Statesman.