Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-27 | Page 10 | Zeppelin Hit by Russians

ZEPPELIN HIT BV RUSSIANS Petrograd, Tan. 26. The naval general gen-eral staff todav received a report that on Monday a Zeppelin airship dropped a number of bombs on Llbau. The guns of the fort fired on tho German aii-ship and the Zeppelin fell into the water. The dirigible was destroyed and its crew made prisoners. The attack by the Zeppelin was made early in the morning. Nine bombs were dropped on the undefended undefend-ed porition of tho town The destruction destruc-tion of the dirigible was accomplished by small war craft which attacked the winged and crippled airship as it floated float-ed on the surface of the sea. The crews of the vessels first took the crew of the Zeppelin off. and, after assuring themselves thai net a vestige j of the aircraft remained availahle for further use, brought their prisoners ashore Llbau is a seaport on the Baltic about 100 miles north of the border between East Prussia and the czar's domain The nearest Zeppelin sheds 1 are at Kocnigsberg, about 12." miles i from Libau