WAR IN THE AIR.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16161, 15 March 1918, Page 7

WAR IN THE AIR.

ZEPPELIN RAID. ■ BOMBS DROPPED AIMLESSLY. (Uv Cable.—Pres3 Association.—Copyright./ (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegrams.) LONDON, March 13. The Press Bureau reports that three enemy airships participated in last night's raid on tho Yorkshire coast. , Only one approached a defended locality, namely, Hull, where it droppod lour bombs, one of which demolished a houso. A woman died of shock. Tho other machines wandered for hours in remote districts at great altitudes, and unloaded their bombs in open country. They thon proceeded seawards. j STILL ANOTHER RAID. t __ (Reuter's Telegrams.) (Received March 14th, 11.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, March 13. Aeroplanes carried out a raid over the north-east Coast of England.

GREAT RAID ON STUTTGART. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) BASLE, March 13. The Stuttgart burgomaster has made urgent representations to Marshal von Hindenburg, calling for instant reprisals against Britain. German newspapers show that the Stuttgart raid wan one of the most successful attacks known. It lasted twenty minutes. Bombs crashed on houses, and fires started in widelyseparated parts of tho city. BOMBS DROPPED ON BRUGES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Router's Telegrams.) LONDON, March 13. Admiralty naval aircraft dropped three tons of bombs on Bruges dock on Monday night. They raided billets and sidings at St. Pierre-et-Capelle yesterday, started largo fires, and machine-gunned the enemy trenches.

NAPLES BOMBED AGAIN. (Australian and N. 2. Cable Association.! ROME, March 13. Nnplos was bombed by a single dirigible from Lagosta Island. Twenty bombs fell from a height of 12,000 feet. The old church of St. Bridget and St. Nicholas was destroyed.