The Cambria Daily Leader

■■■■■ Vr.r ■ CASTLE CINEMA (Adjjoining Leader 'Offiee.) ? ^Dfon., Tues.vandWed.,2.30 to 14.30. T H E CIR CUS. OF FIR E, A Thrilling"Three-Part Drama of < Ctrcus. Life, Teeming with Exciting, Hairbreadth Becapee, and Containing a Debgfatful c.StOCy:

1 W n r 0- AIM I C'I T't '0< {.. çq Of ¡ I !t r" ;t t tj [Rt U. I. lIilfi Gjj¡:¡" II -« "I Over 8,500 Prisoners in Two Days' News. I GREAT ALLIED GAINS IN I THE BALKANS. j Our New Somme Line. To-day's news records al l -roun d progress, with welcome To-clay's ne'ws records all-round progress, 'with welco111el tidings of Russian victories and an Allied victory in the Bal- kans On the Somme we hold the whole of Eaucourt L Abbeye The French have also made some new progress. The Russians have won victories on the Zlota Lipa and the wooded Carpathians. The number of prisoners taken, and announced in the reports of Saturday and Sunday, total over 8,500. Of these, however, 3,000 were captured by one portion of General Letchitsky's army between Sept. 19th and 28th. In the Balkans the British have carried two villages and inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy. The Serbians have also won a notable success. TO-DAY'S BRITISH OFFICIAL.. The following report was issued from British Headquarters in France at 11.20 a.m. :— During the night our troops south of the Ancre beat, off an enemy at- tack from our advanced positions east of Eaucourt L'Abbeye. \Ve have established our front in that area, and have cleared the buildings of Eaucourt L'Abbeye of the enemy. Further west daring the night we ha.ve established our line from a point 12,000 yards north of Cour- ceiptte in the direction of tne Hessian trench. An enemy counter-attack forced us to relinquish a portion of the Re- gina trench which we have gained further to the north. This area has shown stubborn fight- ing during the past 24 hours. Elsewhere on our front the night was calm. Successful raids on enemy trenches were carried out north of Neuville 'St. Vaast and east of Lavenbik. TO-DAY'S BRITISH BALKAN I OFFICIAL. Press Bureau, Monday, 11.45 a.m. The War Office announces: Salonika.-The portions of Bulga- rian Una on the Struma front which we captured on 30th Sep- tember include the villages of Karagakoibala and Karagakoizir. Repeated enemy counter-attacks against these places were entirely unsuccessful, and were beaten off with heavy loss. All the ground won has now been consolidated, and there is no sign of the enemy for some distance in front of our trenches. In addition to the heavy casualties inflicted on the enemy, the num- ber of prisoners taken has in- creased to 250, while our own casualties are comparatively small. Three machine guns have been cap- tured. TO-DAY'S FRENCH OFFICIAL. I To the north of the Somme a local operation enabled us to capture a Gerixan trench to the east of Bouctavesnes, and to take some prisoners. Everywhere else the night was calm. ARNY OF THE EAST. I On the tefibank of the Struma the British toops repulsed several counter-atticks launched by the Bulgarians igainst the new posi- tions captutfd on Sept. 30th by our Allies. lown down by fiartain and machine gun fire, the enemy's waves of assault were lispersed, leaving numerous corpus on the ground. To the east of Ctear the Serbians, after following U1 their advantage of yesterday, prtgressed two kilo- metres to the rwth of Kajmac- kalan. besides the battel captured by the Serbians, twotrench cannon lost by them duriig the violent Bulgan eountl" attooks cf Sept. 28th-29th, Net-p- re-taken from the enemy. Fifty fresh prisonerswere taken by the Serbians in thi region. On our left wing thet w-as an inter- mittent infantry a^kou. The fog which has prevailed on this portion of the front has hindered operations. AVIATION. I Adjt. Block brought down a German captive balloon to the east of Bapaume. This is the fifth ba.l- loon brought down up to the pre- sent by this pilot. GENERAL LETCHITSKY'S BIG | CAPTURES. TO-DAY'S RUSSIAN OFFICIAL. Western Front.—In the region, of River Nararhvka. and the j heights on the right bank of the River Zlota Lipa, fighting con- tinues. The enemy there initiated counter- attacks which were repulsed by our fire, suffering great losses. He left in our hands 1,600 rank and file. With the Austrian prisoners were a number of Turks and Ger- man s. The total number of prisoners taken by a section of General Letchit- sky's Army during the battles from Sept. 19tfl to 28th inclusive, i in the wooded Carpathians, is 13 officers and 2,598 raak and file. The war booty captured during the same period amounts to 4 cannon, 13 machine guns, 1 trench mortar, 75 cases with shells and hand grenades, 105 cases of machine-gun belts, beveral thousand rifles, and A large number of cartridges, Caucasian Front.—No events of im- portance have to be recorded.

COAL FOR FRANCE Swansea Champ 's Secretdt-vi Replies to Cardiff. With reference to the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce allegations against the Swan- sea body, who they say wish to monopolise the export of anthracite coal to France, Mr. Henry J. Marshall, secretary of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce, writes as follows to a Cardiff .,itemporarly "COAL FOR FRANCE." Sir,—Under the above heading you give prominence to a report of the proceedings of the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce, when charges were made against the Swansea Committee for the Supply of Coal to France. In the early days of the scheme a Consultative Committee was appointed, consisting of members of the Cardiff and Swansea Committees, to co-ordinate the work of the two districts. The gentlemen who made the observations, together with others present at the moeting,'should have known that any complaints should first be made to that committee. This has not been done. As regards the charges made, these can be dealt with through the proper channels, but in the meantime I am to say that the statements made are totally in- correct.—I am, etc., HENRY J. MARSHALL, Secretary, Swansea Committee. 18, Exchange-buildings, Swansea, September 30th. I

COLONIAL DEFENCE. I Single Men Called Up. I Melbourne, Monday.—The issue of the- proctammation calling up all single men between 21 and 35 years of age for home defence has created intense interest throughout the Commonwealth. It places on eligible men the onus of reporting themselves at depots. The summoning of recruits is extended over the week. Pre- parations have been made to deal expedi- tiously with a large body of men. All accepted men must be in camp before October 14th. FvSt additional arrests have been made JL&ra rfMa <o £ treason,

  nU?? ILS ——— oÇ IMPORTANT SUCCESSES; i??r??h?T!???T ou?LOOL? Ji-I N E D 4,367 FRISKS CAPTURED IN TWO riU.DC> Of Alii ION EtEMV POSiTiOX CARRIED I RUSSIAN OFFICIAL. RUSSIAN OFFI CIAL. Petrograd, Sunday.—Western Front.— In the region south of the town of Riga our artillery shot down a German aero- plane, which fell in the enemy's lines. In the region of Brody-Krausne Railway and further south our troops are advanc- nig after fighting. The enemy is putting t: V desperate resistance. We took pris- oners here 59 oHicers arid 1,928 men. Figntiiig is proceeding in our favour south of Brzezany, on the river Tseniuvka, and in the region of the heights on the right bank of the Ziota Lipa, south of Brzezany, where our troops by a violent coupe de main gained possession of an important part of the enemy's position. We captured 112 offi- cers and 2,2G8 men, and several machine guns. We repulsed by our lire all enemy night counter-attacks. In the same region an air-fight took place between a German Albatross and our valiant aviator, Captain Schifkoif. The latter attacked the enemy machine ajsd forced it to descend in the German lines. Caucasus Front.—There is nothing im- portant to report. GERMAN ADMISSIONS. Sunday's German official makes the fol- lowing references to the Eastern theatre of war: At various points the Russians renewed their attacking activity. Front of Prince Leopold of Bavaria.— West of Luzk, since early this morning, the enemy's fire has increased in intensity on both sides of the railway line between Brody and Lemberg and further south of the Guaberka At Zarkow the enemy advance was checked partly by our cur- tain fire, while his assaults, which at some points were repeated seven times, col- lapsed. On the soathern wing of their attack the Russians gained a footing in our advanced defence line. PERPLEXING THE ENEMY. Amsterdam, Saturday.—A Petrograd telegram to the "Telegraaf" says for fear of the communications being cut between Berlin and Constantinople the Turks, instead of sending troops to the Caucasus, are rushing all their avail- able forces into Galicia and the Dob- rudja. A new army has been formed in Ana- tolia for service on the Balkan front. General Brussiloff's army is con- stantly active, and the enemy is per- plexed as to where the next blow will fall.-Press Association War Special. __n_

THE BREMEN MYSTERY. U Boat-Liner Said to be in 1 Pembroke Dockyard. A Sunday contemporary suggests that the Bremen referred to in the message re- garding the finding of a lifebelt, is the second U-liner of the same name. The fate of the first Bremen has never been! officially made public, and now it would seem there is another secret to remain for a time in the safe keeping of the British Admiralty. Last Thursday the New York "World" stated that it had reliable information that the U-liner had been taken in the nets off Ireland, the crew drowned, and the ship salved and hidden in Pembroke Dockyard. Another American paper! placed her in seclusion at Falmouth with a valuable cargo.

FIENDISH BOMBS. Poison and Germs Dropped on Bucharest. Bucharest, Sunday (received Monday).— The local Press publishes an article de- nouncing the German and Bulgarian air- men who, with their bomhs, drop poison and infectious germs. The authorities have at once taken the necessary mea- sures. The papers also report that two hostile machines have been brought down. The nrst fell near Turnu Severn, and the two German airmen tried to escape, but, were handed over to the authorities. The second met its fate at Tollitro, and the two German airmen were killed. The newspapers of Bucharest, anxious to commemorate the glorious exploit of the French aviators who succeeded in estab- lishing communication between the armies of Rumania and the East, are opening sub- scription to offer each aviator a sword of honour.— Press Association. BUCHAREST AND BOMBS. Bucharest, Saturday (received Monday). j—The United States Minister, M. Vopika, to-day visited the hospitals damaged by bombs dropped by enemy aircraft. At 9 o'clock. this morning enemy aero- planes tried a new attack against Bucha- rest, but were piut to flight by Rumanian I aeroplanes, and were unable to reach the centre of the town. Some bombs were dropped on outlying quarters, but only in- significant damage was done.—Press Asso- ciation.

ENEMY'S POOR CROPS. I Rome, Saturday. — A telegram from Berne stated that a record has been taken of the cereals in Austria and Hungary, showing that the quantity at the disposal j of these countries is absolutely insufficient II even for a period of six months. The Hungarian harvest is inferior to that of 1915 and less than half of that of 1914. Moreover, the Austrian harvest is not sufficient for the needs of the army. The maize harvest, owing to the long I drought, is almost nil.

300,000,000 WANTED! Amsterdam, Sunday (received Monday). I —The Niewe Politische Korrespoipdenz calculates, according to the Hamburger Nachrichten," that the Entente wants at least an army of 300,000,000 men in order to drive Germany out of France and Bel- gium. It says that of the 50,000 square kilometres which are in German occupa- tion, only 150 have up to the present been recaptured, with the low of ihalf-a-million men for the Entente, and if t'he Entente were it will iha-ve lost at the eqd mgQMOft men, j

I A MONTH'S LOSSES i BRITISH TOTA; FOR SEPTEMBER, -r.S.BiiO Following are d tails of the losses given under the principal headings in the casu- alty lists issued by the War Office and published in our coloumns from Septem- ber 1 to September 30, says the Daily Telegraph." The list include casualties reported from all points, at which our armies are engaged:— N.C.O.S & Officers. Men. Killed 991 16,082 Died of wounds 229 5,354 Died 24 1,151s Accidentally killed 4 93 Wounded 3..817 .31,282 Wounded and missing 34 344' Missing, believed killed 47 86 2ü5 9,765 Prisoners of Mat b 89 From these must be deducted the fol- lowing: First reported killed, wounded, or missing; afterwards reported not killed, wounded, or missing. 14 469 This leaves the totals as follows: Officers 5,403 Men 113,780 The figures for July and August res- pectively were: Officers 7,071 Men 52,001 Officers 4,693 Men 123,097 The full list includes a number of modi- fications of casualties previously reported. From the Admiralty during the period have been issued lkts of casualties sus- tained by officers and men. Of these the details are: N£ns& Officers. Men. Killed 11 114 Died of wounds 14 D i C-Cl 9 4 Drowned. 1 16 Dangerously wounded 11 Severely wounded. 1 4 Wounded 10 130 Slightly wounded 4 11 Injured. 15 Missing. 4 10 Prisoners of war 3 15 Totalt4 58 329

PENCLAWDD COCKLES. Huge Output From the Local Beds. At a meeting of the South Wales Sea Fisheries Association at Swansea on Sat- urday, Alderman Jordan presiding, a committee which hai made a tour of the Penclawdd cockle fishery beds presented an interesting report. The committee stai >d it was very diffi- cult to estimate the quantities of cockels gathered there owiiv; to the quantity taken to the hills h" the cocklers them- selves for retail sa>- There was great complaint a* to tiu: (>bt of railway freight to the nearest stations such as Aberdare, Merfhyr, the Rhondcla Valley, and Swan- sea Valley. The distant ferights to Birm- ingham, etc., had iieen reduced. The day the committee were there there were about 50 women with donkeys, each donkey bringing in about 3cwt. of cockles in sacks, That alone would amount to 225 tons of cockles per mo&th. There were over 100 persons engaged in the industry directly dependent upon it for a livinf, and the inhabitants of Peil- clawdd "numbered about 3.000, most of whom were mainly dependent on the fishery. Should anything happen to the industry that no more cockles could be gathered, Penclawdd wouki practically eeitse to be. The committee examined beds of young cockles, and they appeared to be very numerous, being some miles in length. These would not be touched until next year, if then. The committee noticed that the cocklers themselves used a good deal of system in their gathering, leaving cer- tain beds to recocver after having worked them for some time. In this way they gradually worked the whole sands, moving from bed to bed. A HUGE OUTPUT. The committee did not think there would be much difficulty in obtaining an agreement to enclose a small portion of the beds for experimental purposes once the whole matter was fairly explained to the cocklers. The total output of cockles from Pen- clawdd could not be much short of 320 tons per month. The committee also saw at Penclawdd many hundreds of tons of cockle shells lying in the form of a bank some 40 feet high and about 100 yards long. These shells had been taken by some firm in Bristol on paying someone to haul them. They probably belonged to the lord of the manor, if there were one, and the proceeds should go towards a fund for the cockle industry at Penclawdd. A discussion arose ac to the best means of protecting this important industry, and it was decided to call a meeting of the oocklersand discuss the matter with them. MUMBLES OYSTERS. It was reported that an anonymous letter had been received complaining of ths selling of Mumbles oysters out of season. The Clerk (Mr. Deer) said he had aoetd on a suggestion that merchants who supplied Porcueguese oysters should be written to with a view of ascerttijiing whether they had sold any oi their pro- duct in tike district, but he had received no reply. Inquiries at the Mumbles failed to elicit that there had been any such sale as was alleged. The Clerk said he had received com- plaints from fishermen A sewage running on to the perches at the Mumbles, and he had written to the District Council on the subject. In a discussion it was stated that the allegation was a serious one in the in- terests of public health, and the clerk was instructed to write a strong letter to the District Council requesting immediate attention and abatement of the alleged nuisance ond the ground that it was dt n- gerous to health, and if no action were I taken to place the matter before the Board of Fisheries and Agriculture.

NEATH AND THE NATIONAL/ I The Guarantee Fund raised by the Neath Provisional Committee of the National Eisteddfod, 1918, iias reached over £ 1,000. Among the guarantors are Mr. T. J. Williams, M.P., Swansea/ 200 guineas, and Mr. £ Evans Bevan, J.P., Sir Griffitb Thomas, and Mr. W* J. Stephens, 2100 each.

A man in whose garden rubbish was burning, at night was fined X10 by the Stratford magistrate or. Saturday for making a fire in such a manner as to serve ;as a signal. ?

 F, .?l, _n F ? ?l ZEPP. BROUGHT;  ??  (113 L m t.  L Ii LTPPI  ?  DOWSi 4th Raider's Fate. I 10 HOSTILE iiBSillPS CROSS EAST COAST. Vivid Tale of Destruction Press Bureau, Monday, 12.34 a.m.—The following communique was issued by the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief Home Forces at 11.45 p.m.— A number of hostile airships crossed the East Coast/between 9 p.m. and mid- night. A few bombs have been dropped near the ooast, but no damage has yet been reported. The raid is still in progress, and 6ome airships are in the vicinity of London, where some guns have been in action, A later report says:— An airship is just reported to have been brought down in flames north of London. TEN RAIDERS. I Zeppelin Brought Down Near I Potter's Bar. The following communique was issued by the Field-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief the Home Forces at 10.30 a.m.:— Ten hostile airships crossed the East Coast last night between nine o'clock and midnight. One airship approached the north of I London about 10.6 p.m., but was driven off by gun-fire and pursued by aeroplanes. She attempted to return from the north- west, but was attacked by guns and aero-! planes, and brought to earth in flames in; the neighbourhood of Potter's Bar shortly! before midnight. ANOTHER DRIVEN OFF. I A second airship attempted to attack I London from the north-east, but she was! driven off about 1.0 a.m. A number of bombs were, dropped, but no reports of casualties or damage have yet been re- ceived. The remaining airships wandered aim-! lessly over the Eastern Counties and Lincolnshire. Bombs were dropped promiscuously but most of them appear to have dropped in open country without causing damage. The airship which was destroyed was of) the latest type. THE BURNING AIRSHIP. I A representative of the Press Associa- tion, describing the scene at the spot where the Zeppelin fell, says:—The Zep- pelin Sell in a field, and in the middle of the wreckage thore stands the remains of a huge tree destroyed by the fall of the airship Round about the tree can be seen the huge framework, twisted and twined, and presenting an amazing sight in the starlight. Burning in the middle of the wreckage are the remains of one or more of the petrol tanks. Now and then a body would be extracted from the burning mass, and one of the first bodies recovered is believed to be the commander's. All the bodies recovered were fearfully burned, and death must have taken place in mid- air. A WONDERFUL SPECTACLE. The Press Association telegraphs:— As a spectacle awful and overwhelming in its lurid light through space, the fourth Zeppelin to be despatched while lover British soil must be accounted the (superior of any of its predeceissors. Its destruction, rapid and complete, was visible over all the northern suburbs and outskirts of London. It was watched by millions of eyes as it fell, lighting up the earth and sky like some great celestial torch. There was little of that atmos- pherie density that robbed many specta- tons of the full glory of the burning of the Cuffley airship, and, unlike the Zeppelin brought down in Essex a week ago, it .vae sufficiently near London to leave its' flaming trail high up when it dropped to its doom. There was singularly little noise throughout the whole affair-the clamour of the guns was less insistent seemingly than .on any previous Zeppelin raid because the visitor never apparently reached further than the extenor ring of the London defences, and the peppering, it received from the far-away guns was suggested to the ear of the Londoner only by a stuttering staccato of dull reports' and the frequent fiery star showers that twinkled about the sides of the airslup as the shells burst around her. The most impressive feature of the vkitor's encounter with the London ant- aircraft defences was the prompt manner Ïr. which her destruction succeeded her discovery. INSISTENT SEARCHLIRHT I She was picked up by the searchlights! shortly before midnight, coming up from i -the east. The guns were in instant opera- i tion, and she turned south withotit, changing her altitude to any market! ex-, tent. She could be seen hovering over the' countryside in the full glare of a very in- sistent searchlight, her evident hesitation^ before deciding upon the next step sug- gesting an effort to collect her wits by a i -suspect who suddenly Jinds hii £ u>elf the oojeci of a challenging scrutiny uuùm.! the flame of a bull's-eye lantern. That j searchlight never left the Zeppelin from! the time it picked her up until she se?nk, an incandescent, broken shell, below the trees, and her <xcape from its ter- ribly piercing eye came on when his destructive powers were at an AM I FIERY ARC OF DEATH. ï The airship doubled now and twisted, went south and returned north. all the time shells were bursting around her with encouraging frequency. Sud- denly a white arc of flame appeared in the side of the Zeppelin. It spread like a surging wave along the crest of her envelope, descended thence like forked lightning aroud her bulky body, and in- credibly, as one looked, she was a mass of fire. Just momentarily she. hung there majestically, then dipped. The frame- work showed in the glare like the giant ribs of a mastodon ripped bare by a tusk of an invisible yet mighty enemy. The (Continued in Nest Column.)

Tn y' Q R' [,H: TO-DAY'S nn RESUME c Leader Office, 4.50 p.m. Ten Zeppelins crossed the East on iUuday tiight: only nine got away. The tenth fell in flames at Potter's Bar, North London. This is the fourth raidor to be destroyed in a month in Lngland. An enemy attack on .the new British posi- tion beyond Eaucourt l'Abbaye was beaten off. Our line lias been estab- lished 12,000 yards north of Coureel-otte to the Hessian trench. The total British captures on the Somme front from 1st July to 30th September arc- 588 officers and 36,147 other ranks. The British have won an important vic- tory in Macedorif, taking two villages on the Struma front. The enemy's counter-attack was beaten off with heavy losses to them. Our troops took 230 Prisoners. To-day's. Russian official reports a new victory on the Zlota Lipa, where counter-attacks met with great losses, the enemy leaving 1,600 prisoners—Aus- trians, Germans, and Turks. One por- tion of General Letchitsky's Army has taken over 2,600 prisoners in ten days. The Russian report of Sunday records the capture of 4,367 prisoners in the region of the Brody-Krasne railway, on the Zlota Lipa. The Rumanian official of Saturday admits a set-back in Transylvania, where our Ally had to fall back. On the other hand the enemy is now admitting ,that the success is not the great victory that he was at first inclined to claim.

TUNNEL COLLAPSES. Amsterdam, Monday.—The Echo de BeIge" says on Friday ni; };. a large por- tion of the railway turn--) —0111 Vise bo Hix la Chapelle eollut-ed. Twenty-five working were killed.

A SPEEDY fV^OTOR TRIP. Johnny Jones, Castle Voelgastell, Llan. ardiney, was at Carmarthen on Saturday fined A:5 for driving a motor car to the danger of the public between Carmarthen railway station and the town, on Septem- ber 5. Inspector Williams said the car was proceeding at a speed of 25 miles an hour, and three boys on the road had a very narrow escape.

TRUE TO HIS PALS. Out in craterland, writes one of the British correspondents, describing the Thiepval fighting, were found three Aus- tralians in a hole. One of them was unwounded, the other two rotting with wounds. They had been there for nine da.s. The unwounded man had etav?d with his pals all that time, day after day, night- after night, hoping for rescue. This part of crateiland was swept with machine-gun fire--oiirs or the enemy's how conlcl tb^eee men tell who had lost all isense' of direction ?~ but at night the unwounded Australian crawled out of hi6 hole and rumaged among dead bodies for rations and water-bottles, which he took hack to his friends and shared with them.

SEBVfAN OFFICIAL.' no Serbian l*gsition ifId on )ton- day thetolbrinc official eommunifpiA: All the -deopabttea received from KajmakaUa sector Aow that at 4 < < the Serbian Prta* di611 has ta|t^a an important' posi tion a t. KotcTioveaj, a mile ud & half north-east of Kajnv.- kalan. TU Bulgarian battery which, we took res-, is a field gun and not mountain battery, as we had announced yesterday. In- puts-uing the Bulgtrians we liar* eøntti.&* beaten eig-ht Bul- garian bafttaikffi* la sipit, of the fact that tie Ihilgitmas had misaarM our ,ou,eM froax KfeimakaUa battle, me have umttmaded Bulgarian prisoner*, amongwfc wfe«m are- thre6 6tfitire.-Pt4a Aeeociation:, 4tf. none NtUtffAlS SUNK. ChrUffifaita., iSemdAy.'—A. 'tel from Vitfoeii rtå. the KferttflAi etnswn '&&& Fax& fefeaft guftfe I?? a stitv maarltw. ne tlPs iivo been landed. >; ?. /». t I or À ;¡. y • • 'A c. J { v' •- V* y! v • v* '• • f .-4 I.: f 'y -Po ,-i. ■■■■•: v } -,< 1 • "v' • i *• »<t J! • • ,4 I 1, ( 'y'

doomed giant sank its belly, dropped heavily as if itsback were broken, and in mid-air parted, one portion falling clearly away from the other. Showers of fragments shot white hot out of the glowing masses, and the airship was dis- membered by the fire long before she reached the ground like a comet which glided monstrously to earth, and small dark forms were the only ghastly re- minders of the fact that only a fow seconds before the thing was inhabited by men. ALL OVER tN TWENTY MINUTES. Brief as is the foregoing story, the history of the Zeppelin, after sh 1- once was spotted, was not less brief. Within 20 minutes of her first coming under fire she lay a wreck, and one of those wonderful million-throated cheers was ringing over London for the third time within a month. The remains of the Zeppelin have scattered over about two miles of coun- tryside. Within a few yards of a cluster of houses the greater maslS of the blazing wreckage fell. The framework fell lengthwise during the latter portion of the descent, impaled itself on a tree. and telescoped into a circle of about 25 yards' diameter. Some of the crew had been shot out of the gondolas as the wreck fell, and these were picked up in various corners of the field. The rest lie buried beneath three feet or more of aluminium gilders. A GRUESOME SCENE. The spot where the Zeppelin fell pre- sented a weird and gruesome spectacle. Standing in the middle of a large field are the remains of a big tree which had been partly destroyed by the fall of the Zeppelin. Surrounding the gaunt and charred trunk the wreckage lay stacked in a circle about 30 feet high as a mass of twisted aluminium trellis work and light metal girders. The .petrol tanks were still burning in the midst of the wreckage casting a lurind light around. Onlookers knew that beneath the vact mound of debris, that funeral pyre of highly inflammable material lay the bodies of those who had been alive but a few minutes before, although portions of the Zeppelin fell on the countryside for a distance of about two miles. The main structure fell in two portions, the second portion which consisted of the propeller, petrol tank, and other parts falling about fifty yards from the main portion, near the trees. The first body dragged from the wreckage appeared to bt. that of the Commander, who had evidently stuck to his post to the last. Hi- face was c, zite recognisable. One hand was cler. V-d tightly, and the other lay open, wit], ^he aim slightly bent just as if it had been about to adjust some of the mechanism before the final plunge. Another body appeared to be that of quite a young lad of 16 or 1 7years afo age. Other bodies were recovered from different parts of tihe wreckage—smoking and charred pieces of humanity, yet marvellously in- tact considering the violence and horror of the death penalty which each had paid. All the bodies were laid rever- ently and c'arefully in a small barn to await removal to the mortuary. Although it was past midnight the, road was soon thronged with sight- seers. The military representatives were quickly on the scene, and a double cor- don of soldiers and special constables rendered it impossible for any but too. firs tarrivals to get near the scene of-, death and destruction. One of the residents « at Potter's Bar-, stated that the contact of the eZppelm. with ths earth caused a violent shaking of all Ji dr doors and windows.