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Show BOMBS HURLED "I FROM AIRSHIP I III HAVOC German Dirigible Flying Over Antwerp Rains I I Down Explosives Near B Palace of King ZEPPELIN FINALLY BROUGHT TO EARTH I Twelve Are Killed by Dead ly Missiles Dropped From Sky on Bel-r Bel-r gian Homes LONDON Aug 25 12 30 p m The correspondent at Antwerp of the Even jnjr News telegraphs that a Zeppel n f !rsh p wh th flew over Antwerp last ' n ght was brought down by Belg an artillery fire b x m les outside Antwerp !The frew of fifteen n en were taken prisoners This dispatch ev dently refers to the aan e a rsh p reported carl er in the day from Antwerp as hav ng flown I' over the c ty last n ght . nother d spatch from Antwerp says 1 th s Zeppel n before t was brought to Hearth succeeded n dropp ng seven o eight bon bs into Antwerp One of the ,; houses wrecl ed by these miss les was t 6 tuatod only 300 ya ds from the palace , of King Albert Seven persons were ' killed and s x ser ously injured by th s explos on Some other houses were half den ol shed bj the fall ng bombs t, Hospital Is Wrecked One bomb partly wrecked the hosp tal of St LI zabeth but fortunately there were no pat ents n the bu Id ng The bombs eiploded w th terr fic force and threw the inhab tants of Antwerp into a state border ng on, pan c There is intense ndignat on in Ant w erp at the attack on tue hosp tal wh ch was flying the Bed CroBS flag The of fic al information bureau has made announcement confirm ng pre vious reports of the destruct on wrought in Antwerp by a Zeppel n a rsh p throw s Ing bombs into the city Official Confirmation The bureau s announcement follows s- A telegram has been received from S r Franc s II V 11 ers the Br t sh m n ster to Belgium which i confirms the report that a Zeppel n airsh p passed over Antwerp last n ght and dropped six shrapnel bombs nto the c ty One landed very near the palace but happ ly it d d no niury to the inmates j i M ch damage was done to property i and twelve 1 es were lost The message troni S r Franc s de U ' Clares that this act has ntens fied H the ndignat on wh ch the brutal ty 9 of the Germans has aroused |