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ZEPPELIN RAID

... ZEPPELIN RAID. Press Bureau, Tuesday, 1 a.m. The following communiqué is issued by the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Some Forces:— Hostile airships approached the East Anglian coast about half-past • nine to-night (Monday), but have not penetrated ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

. ZEN' STRAFERS. FOR AIRMEN WHO DEFEATED RAIDERS. The panes of the heroes who destroyed the Zeppelin which ..

... . ZEN' STRAFERS. FOR AIRMEN WHO DEFEATED RAIDERS. The panes of the heroes who destroyed the Zeppelin which attempted to raid the North- East Coast early in August, and - who damaged a second airship, have been made known. The officers, who have been ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

s a 4.- , OUR SHORT STORY, OUR ZEPPELIN NIGHT! Frank and' I were asleep by half-past nine. How's Julie?'

... swept the above our hill, And two Zeppelins made their appearance abruptly, dramatically, bad directly over the Smalls cottage. (Thus, et all events, Mrs. 'mall, though personally I couldn't quite see how the Zeppelins ilisnaged to do its Meanwhile all ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3220 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SETS WET GRASS ON FIRE

... SETS WET GRASS ON FIRE. Thermite, the explosive used on this country by Zeppelins, causes molten blazing iron to fall through the air, of a temperature of 5.000 degrees. said Mr. .1. Young. of the. Woolwich Royal Military Academy, at the Society of ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A Wireless Operator's Heroism

... in the Gloucester Regiment, and was wounded on the Somme. Brave Attack on a Zeppelin. Three officers and a private have been decorated for a courageous attack on a Zeppelin off the North-east coast -of England. The story of the incident was related the ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 633 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

A ROYAL LOTTERY

... A ROYAL LOTTERY. Lotteries have been turned to account m many ways, and not only did a lottery enable Zeppelin to carry on his experiments towards that system of frightfulness asso- ciated with his name, but the British Museum was built out of a lottery ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTI

... What had apparently been intended by the Germans to be the greatest raid of the year resulted for them in disaster. It was a Zeppelin raid. Perhaps the enemy hoped to prove to us that the gasbags were still to be dreaded. They sent over a fleet of ten or ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 605 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AIR RAID ASKED FOR

... this new occasion the German Govern silent was to ix the time, and as an inducemeat the advantage of having submarine and Zeppelin bases in the west of Ireland was insisted upon. ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE KAISER'S TEETH

... remains that the Kaiser could undoubtedly have prevented the tragedy and did not. His Joy Over Zeppelin Raids. In his conversations with his dentist about Zeppelin raids, the Kaiser seems to have revealed himself as a thoroughgoing tiger for frightfulness ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1582 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

RAIDS INTO GERMANY BOMBS ON HEIDELBERG STATION AND MANNHEIM. DAMAGE AT METZ. The following was received on ..

... no fewer than eighteen enemy machines and driven of down out of control; only three British machines are reported missing. ZEPPELIN SHEDS DESTROYED. The Secretary of the Admiralty makes the following announcement:— ' A detachment of the Grand Fleet operat ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 992 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CUR AIRSHIPS

... elevegi minutes, which is a record for a non-rigid, and is believed to have been surpassed only by two performances of German Zeppelins. After the misfortune to the first naval airship no rigid was produced in Great Britain until December, 1916, so that this ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 466 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LOCAL OPERATIONS

... is missing. On Way 10 one of our seaplanes in the North Sea sighted a Zeppelin on patrol, and an indecisive action lasting half an hour toot place, being terminated by the Zeppelin retreating to its base. WORK OF THE AIRMEN. ON ZEEBRUGGE AND BRUGES' Reports ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1918
Newspaper: West Bridgford Advertiser
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2772 | Page: 2 | Tags: none