Show 0 I AIRSHIP BREAKS fROM J Giant Patrie Sheds Shackles and is a Fugitive in inthe inthe inthe the Sky STRUCK BY HEAVY SQUALL Strange Accident Causes Great Excitement Throughout France London Dec Dee 1 An I.-An An Immense airship believed to be the tho Patrie which broke I awa away while being being repaired at Verdun France rance yesterday was seen today passIns passing pass- pass ing Ins ng over oyer Wales Vales anti and traveling tra seaward It I created great reat excitement In the tue cities cites and villages over which It pass pass- ed etl Some of those who saw It declared that three men were hanging to It f hut mt tills this report is discredited as no mention menton was made of or anyone being carried carried car car- ried vied up with It when It broke away I IThe The loss 1018 o of the lie Patrie seems scorns primal I ly ily due ue to a trifling Incident Incident While maneuvering Friday a portion porton of the overalls of ot a mechanic became entangled ed etl In the tho motor necessitating repairs The airship came to earth near Sou- Sou hemes ten miles mies from Verdun Repairs had lad been completed and anel tho the engineers were starting on the return Journey journe A crowd crowl of af soldiers from the garrison gathered to watch tho the airships airship's night flight In Grip Grill of AVInd ind At t 8 o'clock last night a Q sudden squall squaB burst burst striking the airship heeling heel- heel In ing ng It over and 11 lifting It violently from the he ground The rhe officers became alarmed alarm alarm- ed and and shouted orders commanding the soldiers to seize selzo tho the guide ropes and prevent tho airship from mn being snatched snatch snatch- ed away by the Jalc gale The squad of soldiers soldiers sollers sol sol- sol sol- diers lers seized every available lo hold on tho ho giant sIant airship but hut the tho gao gale was as stronger than titan the soldiers Finally Finaly the tho te men fearing to be bo carried away relinquished d their holds anti and dropped to ant the ground Some of ot the pluckiest soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers held on so 80 long Jong that the they had to drop 20 feet reet The moment tho the airship p was released from the tho weight of the soldiers the gale le snatched It It tho the Patrie soared upwards with wih the swiftness of or a rocket and France Francc saw it no more All Al Points Notified NotiCed The Tho disappearance of or tho the Patrie was Immediately tele telegraphed to tho the war ar of- of where the tho officials sent ent telegrams to overy every garrison In north and Franco France ordering a sharp harp outlook tb be he kept Some excessively patriotic Frenchmen tonight express tho the hope hono that the tho Patrio had not dropped Into g r gl Germany thus involuntarily lc n placing th the secret of or Its It construction fn In tho hio handoC hands hand o oC of the h German military l aeronauts A A. military I expert Wt said rt tonight i f Tho The force of the tho ballast ballast- less leBS airship VI was sufficient to a 1 eat 1 Ul r r d tho IL Inability of or th tho ho Paines Paine's era gas gas' gat la bag to resist lie tho Internal pressure u of gas the tho airship 1 f. f pt must have C burst scattering a tl Its tory fragments ts over a 0 wIde extent t of ot terri tern Despite this export opinion Parisians are aro Iro hopeful that that the tc Welsh reports aro true and that lint the Patrie may be picked picked pick pick- ed ee up In the sea in a n lay day or two b by somo some steamship l. This afternoon an airship was us reported report report- ed passing passIng over Belfast Ireland and was apparently under control Its JU name nare has not been beon een definitely ascertained |