WAR IN THE AIR.
THE ZEPPELIN RAID.
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(Received October 3, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, October 2
Official.—Tcti 1 airships, one being of the largest type, approached London at 10 o'clock last night. Gun fire drove them off ami aeroplanes pursued them.
One of the raiders attempted to return from the north-west, but guns and aeroplanes brought it to earth, in flames, at Potter's Bar, at midnight.
A second airship was driven off at 1 o'clock.
The bombs caused no damage or casualties.
The remainder of tho raiders-wandcr-od aimlessly over the Eastern Counties, and indulged in promiscuous bombing.
Tho falling Zeppelin broko in several pieces, and the largest became impaled in a troe, burniug furiously. Six bodies were found in a field' some distance away; the men had apparently jumped' out of the airship. A great number of bombs was dropped over a % wide area, but only insignificant damage was done.
One man was killed .and one woman injured.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3570, 3 October 1916, Page 5
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159WAR IN THE AIR. THE ZEPPELIN RAID. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3570, 3 October 1916, Page 5
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