Into the renamed city of
Russian Petrograd,
Two railway trucks conveyed
remains
Of a Zeppelin airship - shot
down, as reported,
From a great height by
Russian artillery.
The largest part of the
inflated body destroyed,
By the exploding gas - the underbelly
Of an engine car, with four
propellers, survived,
The fittings intact and in
good repair.
This Eastern front has
reported the destruction,
So far, of two German Zeppelins.
But if this was one of them,
it was not clarified.
Perhaps this was an
additional craft,
Lost to the aerial fleet
that Germany intended
To play a big part in the
war.
This Zeppelin, if shot down
in dead of night,
Will be the third airship,
Of the same type, the Russians
have gained.
As other two captures,
Were reported as happening
in broad daylight.
On the coast of Belgium, at
Ostend, Saturday,
Occurred a Zeppelin raid setting
out to destroy
Ammunition trains, which the
enemy believed
To be halted at the station.
In fact the trains
Had been there, but had left
on a previous day.
The belief is that the enemy
had gained
Information of ammunition
trains from spies.
From Copenhagen, on Friday,
North East
Of Kattegat, at Thunoe - a
Zeppelin flight,
Had been seen moving slowly
south east,
To vanish towards the strait
of the Little Belt.
Reports from Bordeaux, on
Friday evening,
Are received in a dispatch,
that Switzerland
At Basle, bore witness of a dark,
moving
Zeppelin - in a trial flight,
it had proceeded
Above Lake Constance - the
suggestion is
That this test flight was
not very successful.
As to how or why, the paper
gives no clue...
by
Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1914.
War on Zeppelins - Another Capture
Reported. The
Daily Telegraph - Special War Edition, [online] 27
Sept. p.2. Col.1. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11121585/Daily-Telegraph-September-27-1914.html
[Accessed: 27th September 2014].
Anon.,1914.
Airship at Ostend - Object of the Attack. The Daily Telegraph -
Special War Edition, [online] 27 Sept. p.2. Col.1. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11121585/Daily-Telegraph-September-27-1914.html
[Accessed: 27th September 2014].
Anon.,1914.
Flight near the Baltic. The Daily Telegraph -
Special War Edition, [online] 27 Sept. p.2. Col.1. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11121585/Daily-Telegraph-September-27-1914.html
[Accessed: 27th September 2014].
Anon.,1914.
A New Zeppelin. The Daily Telegraph -
Special War Edition, [online] 27 Sept. p.2. Col.1. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11121585/Daily-Telegraph-September-27-1914.html
[Accessed: 27th September 2014].
Mann, J., 2014. 100
years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 27
September 2014).
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