NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AMAGNIFICENT feat of airmanship was performed at three o'clock on Monday morning by Flight-Sub- Lieutenant R. A. J. Warneford, R.N., who single-handed attacked a Zeppelin between Ghent and Brussels and destroyed it. He dropped six bombs on the Zeppelin, and had come so close to it that when the Zeppelin exploded his aeroplane was, so to speak, blown up. It turned completely over. According to some accounts, it turned over several times while falling, but Mr. Warneford regained control and landed safely, though of course within the German lines. The petrol had fallen out of his tank, and he bad to refill it from his reserve supply before restarting his engine. This he had time to do without being captured, and he returned safely to his base. The Zeppelin fell in burned fragments to the ground. The crew, probably about twenty-eight in number, were of course killed. It is said that some of the wreckage fell on an orphan asylum and killed and wounded some of the inhabitants. The King telegraphed his congratulations to Mr. Warneford, and con- ferred on him at once the Victoria Cross. The Zeppelin destroyed was almost certainly one of the raiders. On Monday two other naval airmen bombed the airship shed at Evere, near Brussels. It is thought that a Zeppelin may have been inside, as enormous flames issued from the shed.
