30 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 3

In the case of the burnt airship the whole crew

perished and the great structure was reduced to a mass of twisted metal. The second airship alighted without doing herself any very great injury, and the crew gave themselves up as prisoners, but not before they had set fire to the Zeppelin on the ground and had done it a great deal of damage. Lord French's official report, issued on Wednesday morning, states that the first airship was " finally destroyed by an aeroplane after passing through effective gunfire." The second airship, we are told, was hit by gunfire from London defences, and forced to descend in Essex through loss of gas.