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Show DARING ACTS OF BRITISHAVIATORS Friedrichshafen. Germany, Nov. 22, i via Berlin. The Hague and London. 1105 a. m. FJlaborate precautions which tho Germans have taken for an emergency were rosponcible for the failure of the raid of three English aviators who yesterday afternoon swooped down upon this city to drop bombs upon the Zeppelin baJloon works. Anti-aeroplane cannon and machine guns adapted to high angle fire defeated tho accomplishment of the daring exploit and succeeded in bringing down one of the hostile machines ma-chines and putting the othertj to flight. Tho presence of the British airmen above Constance at 2 o'clock immediately imme-diately was announced to the authorl-Liee authorl-Liee at Friedrichshafen by telephone, i When the airmen appeared at Fried-jrlchshafen Fried-jrlchshafen the anti-balloon cannon and the machine guns immediately opened fire The Englishmen circled above the balloon hall for some time and dropped six bombs, two of which camo so near to the building as to cause a tremor of apprehension among those watching the novel combat. com-bat. Two other bombs struck houses In the city, damaging them severely and killing a man and wounding a woman. One of the flyers then made a fearless fear-less attempt to cross the hall at a height of only a quarter of a mile. Bullets from the guns mounted on the tops of buildings, however, pierced the aeroplane's gasoline tank, causing tho fuel to escape and forcing forc-ing the pilot to attempt to glide to earth. During the descent of the machine, ma-chine, the airman, a lieutenant of the British royal naval air service named Kriggs, threw two or three more bombs at the hangar, but they missed their mark and did no damage. The lieutenant on reaching the ground defended himself with arre-volver arre-volver but was captured after receiv-a receiv-a slight wound in the head. The point where the aeroplane landed was only 300 feet from the Zeppelin hall The other aviators rose to a groat height and disappeared across Lake Constance. The wounded man is being treated at a local hospital. London. Nov 23, 3.05 a m Dispatches Dis-patches from correspondents of several sev-eral London papers stato that a Zeppelin Zep-pelin dirigible balloon shed at Friedrichshafen Fried-richshafen u as damaged during the attack made by three British aviators Saturday, but that the airship whs uninjured. The Rotterdam correspondent corre-spondent of the Daily Mail asserts that four bombs were dropped in the town near the shed, killing five men besides damaging houses According to the Basel correspondent correspon-dent ot the Daily Chronicle, bombs thrown from one of the aeroplane struck a balloon shed and went through the glass roof, damaging a dirigible within. The correspondent adds that it is impossible to ascer tain the extent of the damage done to the balloon. oo |