EAST COAST AIR RAID SENSATION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2365, 22 January 1915, Page 5

EAST COAST AIR RAID SENSATION

; THE ZEPPELIN'S' VOYAGE i HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED IN GERMANY . By Tdejwh—Press Association—Oowrislil; ■ mi. n -, , . _ ■ London, January 20. ' whether Zeppelins or.aeroplanes were at Yari moutb. lhc authorities- aire' positive that the craft were aeroplanes; and it is i generally believed they were aeroplanes, owing to small explosives used. ■■ An airship was,plainly seen at Sandringham, and eye-witnesses state that two.Zeppelins passed Cromer at 8.30 p.m., coming from the direction of Mundesley (in. the .south-east) going to 'Witbourne.' About 10 o'clock one airship came eastward/ turning, seaward, near Sheringham, and taking a north-west-ly course. - ■ , & Amsterdam telegrams state that an airship was seen in the morning • crossing; north of the Dutch Islands, including Ameland. Heavy gun firing was heard in a northerly direction soon after. A second airship was seen at a great height going rapidly westward in the afternoon. Later, one airship returned. 5 • . Of the three airships seen at Tersohelling.(in the Fresian Group), one was going westward "and the others, in a south-westerly, direotion. The- airships were in -wireless' communication with the Emden station. . Several houses'- were demolished at King's Lynn, where twenty-five families are honieless.'-: ' •' A soldier who was.'wounded at Yarmouth has since died. The oifioialff'at Oromer, on the Norfolk coast; 21: miles from Norwich . promptly extinguished all lights, and no bombs were dropped there. . ' ; The hydraulio ; engine-house at the Docks was destroyed. 0 A woman's.corpse haß been found at King's Lynn, and it is believed there ° i vrere tpo. othor fatalities. Several were injured. • . A bomb fell near the encamped troops and an ammunition store at 'Grim- ■ ston (6i. miles east of King's Lynn). . TWELVE HOURS FROM START TO FINISH. / ■ ' (Rec. January 21, 8.5 p.m.) '•IT.' a V m Lontfon, January 21. ihe Zeppelins' time-table is set out as follows They were seen to leave Terschelhng (intheFriesian ilslands, off the Zuyder Zee) at 2.30 p.m. v They arrived at Yarmouth at 8.30 p.m. Dropped soven bombs; Sheringham, 8 35 p.m., eight bombs; Cromer, 8.40' p.m., five bombs; Hunstanton. .10 p.m.. two bombs; Sandringham, 10.15 p.m., three bombs; King's Lynn, 10.30 p.m., seven bombs. ._ On their return trip they were sighted at Terschelling at two o'clock in the morning. . - EXCITING INCIDENTS AND NARROW ESCAPES ' RAILWAY TRAIN CHASED BY; A•• ZEPPELIN. v; ' ; . , (Reo. January 21, 11.85 p.m.) tr . • .' , ~ London) January 21. • ~ accounts, of the raid are current. One story says that an airsfiip circled Kings Lynn twice, sometimes appearing to hang motionless. ' > _ aerrinc reports followed the dropping of the bombs. One blew out the window of a church at Snettisham. The rector and his family were 'standing at the rectory gate, dose to the church, and watched the manoeuvre of tho dirigible, believing it_ to bo British, until by its. shape' they realised thatit was & Zeppelin. They escaped with a shock. ■ i ...At Yarmouth nobody actually saw the aircraft, but it is believed to'-bare ; been a dirigible. ' Two of the unexploded bombs are so big that they cduld scarcely have been portable by a Taube aeroplane. Only one of the aircraft , '/aided the town. Aupther went straight ahead in the direction of Oromer. • ' Several of.the points struck m Yarmouth were in a*straight line, about one yards apart, . Two bombs fell close to Saiht Piter's Church. Ihey had evidently been aimed at the steeple, and missed by yards. Two peopie were killed, Colliding a woman,-aged 72. The windows within • a two # hundred yards* radius, includmc the chutoh,' were smashed An intercession service had just-fimshed at the church, and the vicar inside was surprised to see the double-locked vestry door blown open ' There were severall narrow esoapes at other places. One man escaped , unhurt from a demolished house.. A girl, who was playing the piano in a nouse at Yarmouth, was,blown, off the stool downstairs, but not 'injured Anengine-driver reports that a; Zeppelin ohased his train from Hunstanton King's.Lynn, using it as a guide. He pulled out the throttle of his engine, and raced along, leaving the Zeppelin behind. • The coastguards on the Norfolk coast assert that there were four Zeppelins, while some of the fishermen de-clare that there were sis. • Three steered south-east, in the direction of Yarmouth, and three towards Oromer. LATEST NEWS-VALUE OF "LIGHTS OUT" (Hcc. January 22, 1.25 a.m.) :mt,i •,: ,v, . , , ... London, January. 21. , ine general- belief is that two airships were engaged in the raid. ' They . arrived on the coast together, and one went south to .Yarmouth, while the niffnn w ® n * nortl i, *<> Cromer. The latter town escaped damage owing to the action of the authorities in promptly extinguishing the lights. n7 made special, targets of churches and towers. Their exft? J;tl W t ere ° f extraordinary potency. One of the bombs, which was double fifty houses' 1 and °shops ° two cottages, and shattered the windows of • 11r 0 r ®P°rt that a soldier was killed' was incorrect. The deaths total four, ' ; including.Mrs. Gazley, who was found crushed- under a bed. Her husband ' was a soldier, who was recently killed in Belgium. WHAT THE HUNS THINK OF THEIR RAIDERS .. "WILDEST DELIGHT THROUGHOUT GERMAN'S." (Rec. January 21, 8.3 p.m.) n ' r K„ i u. v Amsterdam, January 21. HirAuffhmif n»rm<inv u w n -i ew . S ie ra the wildest delight nnU «L S u a * fc fclle raJt * had keen plannedfor months, and the raiders ( onb ttwailiHg *h<?£*• iu/b, it. lt> said, is fcWhjMumunc of the Zsppelu* campjuga,,

The newspapers comment euk.gistically « the fact that "German genius aulartty ' England is invulnerable owing to her inSTATEMENT BY GERMAN ADMIRALTY. • (R«o. January 21, 9.35 p.m.) mv_ „ . ~ ~ , London. January 21. ™ <t* <3e / m ?? Admiralty annouii ces that naval airships undertook an attack some fortified places on the .Englih coast.' The weather was foggy and rainy and soveral bombs were successfully dropped. The airships wore shot at, but returned undamaged. • r KAISER'S JOY|OVER THE RAID. .?d±:T, wssi t'SSKssf IL J&i2ilX££r m * *-• * nd "** —*> Dutch correspondents report ifli at Zeppelins, in returning, passed over +rf n?u H°® mart3 ' bot! ? m Fre-idland. The Dutch Admiralty declares tnat Dutch territory was not crossed. PARIS PLUNGED IN DARKNESS. ' that N a?i^ndoni r ° raft regulati ° ns *4® Pa ™ intoTrWswpasshg PRESS OPINIbiNS ©N THE RAID (Reo. January 21, 8.5 p.m.) ''More Baby" OHng.^ ap k" M article on the" (Reo. January 22, 1 a.m.) •'I 11 1? Times" naval correspondent. regards the tri^n'^n^' srs.'trigzsr** la "» ■»« ftJitsiS lady, a middle-aged shoemaker, and a soHteTwidow andK i When we strike home againstGermanywe shin ™'t b % , these shameful crimes, but fight hciqourably in the aMuranwthatSrvmfl bo ours, and that the earth will be (purged of these relapses into barbanLi." A MOI)ERN WAR ZEPPELIN DESCRIBED BPont a fortune on experimentation vn' th tZ alcru™ ar Wh ° haß qinnn lo war , Zeppelm may be d(}3cnbecl as follows; Cinaoitv qn nnn HiZLZTw teW meterß 0,000 ll tO 12 ' 000 pellerT. The two^ropeners I 'eftch' l€C^thn-d 3e Ml W is' l p^^i mica] apparatus, but also by out ballast Amnlfl nmvimn» against loss of gas. The gas, when 'heated by radiatio°of the lui is ihol'.""' "" pt " d g " d e«trorin E tk ill riiit; s? j-*-"l;Ss While its speed is somewhat less than 1 that of aeroplanes it can m!^ 080 ' much more quickly. , Its mam adv M ta E e le 9 L ?t 8 ereat ™dhi» which enables it to make long scouting flichts C r!,™ A been brought down by the enemy, thej?esults of its eOTeditionare r,ntY> aatsu tamed at Cuxhaven and 'Heligollnd'as a b«"s or & t r ß ea S 3?^' »»«. mdlJm l™g a &m£y'J^mlS\^S£Z£*lr£ r ' Si