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Show ZEPPELINS FLY I OVER ENGLANDl Drop Fire Bombs, But Seem Uncertain as to Their Position. London, April 25, 2:07 a. m. Three Zeppelins visited tho eastern counties last night, dropping Incendiary bobras, according to the official announcement announce-ment The conditions were Ideal for tho Zeppelin raiders. The night was dark and the atmosphere clear. There was a light southwest wind which generally gener-ally had been considered unfavorable for Zeppelins, but it was little moro than a mild breeze,, and any throat of a storm, which It might ordinarily have presaged was lessened by a fav-, fav-, orablo barometer. The raiderB appeared at about the customary hour and seemed a little uncertain as to their location, as the early reports showed that only Incendiary In-cendiary bombs woro being dropped. The official communication regarding regard-ing tho attack says: "Three Zeppelins are reported to have como In from seaward over one of tho eastern counties tonight. Two crossed tho coast of Norfolk shortly before 10:30 o'clock and another followed fol-lowed about 11 o'clock. A few Incendiary Incen-diary bombs had been dropped at the time of the lssuanco of tho communication." communi-cation." Artillery bombardments alone aro taking placo on the French and Belgian Bel-gian fronts, tho scene of the greatest activity being the region of Le Mort Homme and In the Argonno forest, with tho Germans and aggressors in the former and the French in tho latter lat-ter sector. French aviators In squadron formations forma-tions havo dropped largo numbers of shells on German positions at Longuy-on, Longuy-on, Stenay, Dun and near Monte Fau-con. Fau-con. Tho fighting between tho Russians and th Germans and Austrlans along the oastern front continues at various points, but no Important changes In position aro reported. Tho same is true of the Austro-Italian zone. In the Kut-cl-Amara region of Mesopotamia, Me-sopotamia, despite their recent check, the British are keeping up their efforts ef-forts to life the siege of Kut-el-Amara. Tho town of Sannayat Is still under the bombardment of the British guns. Constantinople, reporting on tho repulse re-pulse of the British at Felahie last week, says the British losses were more than 3,000, about 2,000 being killed. A defeat of the Russians on tho center cen-ter of the Turk line In the Caucasus region Is recorded by Constantinople but the Rusisan war office announces that Turkish attempts to advance woro frustrated, and a Turkish offensive of-fensive in tho direction of Kharput checked. no |