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THE CUXHAVEN RAID. THE DAMAGE CAUSED. THE ZEPPELIN FACTOR

... the two Zeppelins which menaced the British ships is taken as evidence that airship assaults do not possess the value that the enemy appear to have attributed to them as a factor in naval fighting. The British fired many shots at the Zeppelins and it is ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Warships versus Zeppelins. An Appeal. REMEMBER OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS AT 5 THE FRONT. CIGARETTES FOR TOMMY

... Warships versus Zeppelins. An Appeal. REMEMBER OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS AT 5 THE FRONT. CIGARETTES FOR TOMMY. W= all cannot go to the front, but there is no one but can do a little towards helping the brave British soldiers who are so nobly fighting on our ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 932 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE GREAT WAR. INTERESTING PARTICULARS. British Aeroplanes Attack Cuxhaven. AEROPLANES ESCORTED BY LIGHT ..

... Cushaven were attacked by seven aeroplanes, escorted by light cruisers and submarines. German Zeppelins, scaplanes and submarines attacked them. The Zeppelins were easily put to flight. Six airmen re-embarked or were picked up. Flight Commander Hewlett ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NEW ADVENTURE FOR SAILORS

... among the men of the Navy concerning the danger to ships from the use of Zeppelins, they are now inclined to treat these huge German aireraft quite lightly. The effect on the Zeppelins of the fire from the Arethusa and the Undaunted—two of the best of our ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 283 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

RAID ON GERMAN PORT

... RAID ON GERMAN PORT. Ficht Between Cruisers, Zeppelins, ~ Submarines and Aeroplanes, AMERICAN COMPLAINT OF TRADE INTERFERENCE. Government Note to Great Britain. Allies Capture a Village near the Coast. ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 29 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FRENCH AND GERMAN BOMB-THROWING. PARIS, Tuesday night

... FRENCH AND GERMAN BOMB-THROWING. PARIS, Tuesday night. A German communique having represented the bombardment of Nancy by a Zeppelin as a measure of reprisal for the bombs dropped on Freiburg in Breisgau by French airmen, it is stated that, by military orders ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SEAPLANES BUSY

... fall wide. A member of the crew of the saucy Arethusa, which has again distinguished herself so well, states that, when a Zeppelin came gliding overhead—a great grey hulk as le put it—the monster seemed larger than the ship hers:ll. But she had no terrors ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE CUXHAVEN RAID GERMAN PRESS COMMENTS

... enemy having sent sirmen in the advance, we prepared for them a worthy reception. The difference was, that our airmen and Zeppelins dropped bombs which hit, and the English dropped missiles which fell beside the objects aimed at. The gasometer of Cuxbhaven ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GERMANS AMAZED

... of the German fleet, possibly in German waters, One interesting aspect of the Cuxhaven raid is the ease with which the Zeppelins were put to flight by the gunfire of two cruisers. Another is that, though the convoying naval squadrons, composed of small ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PROGRESS IN THE EAST, Russians Gaining the Upper Hand. 147TH DAY OF THE WAR

... destroyers, and made for the German warships lying off Cuxhaven. As soon as the British ehips were scen from Heligoland two Zeppelins, three or four seaplanes, and scveral submarines made for them, and, while they remained in the neighbourhood, waiting for ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1371 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NOTES ON NEWS,

... about the Zeppelins, too. There is every reason to believe, how ever, that in submarines Great Britain is very much stronger than Germany, and we have the comforting knowledge that she is able to bunild them wuch more rapidly. As for the Zeppelins, the threat ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1370 | Page: 2 | Tags: none