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Show ; BRITISH AIRSHIPS MAKE SECOND RAID London, Oct. 9. R 25 p m. -The following fol-lowing official statement was Issued ! tonight, covering an attack by a British Brit-ish air squadron on a German airship ' shed at Dusseldorf . "The secretary of the admiralty an-j an-j nounces that Squadron Commander Grev reports that, as authorized, he ! carried out. with Lieutenant R. L. G. j Marlx and Lieutenant S V. Zlppe, a successful attack on a Inisseldorf air-I air-I ship shed. "Lieutenant Marix's bomb, dropped from a height of 5500 feet, hit the shed dropped through the roof and deBtroved a Zeppelin Flames were observod 500 feet high, the result of the igniting of the gas In an airship "All three officers are safe, but their airships have been lost. The feat would appear to have been in even' respect remarkable, having regard re-gard to the distance of more than 100 miles penetrated Into the country held by the enemy, and to the fact that a previous attack had put the enemy on their guard and enabled them to mount anti-aircraft guns." The previous aerial raid on Cologne Co-logne and Dusseldorf was made by British naval airmen from Belgium on September 23. The attack on Dusseldorf was officially reported as successful. Lieutenant C. H Collet dropped three bombs there on the Zeppelin shed, sweeping down to within with-in 400 feet cf his target The attack at-tack on Cologne at that time, like the one reported in the above din-patch, din-patch, apparently failed, so far as inflicting in-flicting any damage Is concerned |