Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — AERIAL BOMBS DESTROY CAMP [ARTICLE]

AERIAL BOMBS DESTROY CAMP

Turks Lose Heavily Wnen Explosives Are Dropped From Two Italian Dirigibles at Aziziah. Rome, May 3.—A brief despatch received at tfie war ministry tells of the destruction of the Turkish camp, “with heavy loss” at Aziziah Jby two dirigible balloons which sailed over the place and dropped explosives into the encampment. This is the first serious destruction done by dirigibles in actual warfare. The report says that, thirty bombs were .dropped, practically anniliHating the Turkish camp. The Turks tried to use their field pieces to destroy the dirigibles with shrapnel but they could not fire at a sufficient elevation and the explosives fell far short. ' ■; . -*