OVERHEAD FOE IN ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2392, 23 February 1915, Page 5

OVERHEAD FOE IN ENGLAND

GERMAN AEROPLANE DROPS BOMBS ON DEFENCELESS TOWNS (Rec. February, 22, 5.40 p.m.) , London, February 22. German, aeroplanes dropped three bombs over Braintree, one over Colchester. and one over Coggeshail. The enemy was moving in the direction of Harwich. Present reports state that there'were no casualties. (llec. February 22, 9.40 p.m.) London, February 22. The aeroplane appeared over Essex at 8.30 o'clock at night, travelling at a great height. It was not seen, but the i noise of the propellor was plainly heard. Tbe speoial constabulary in the district were immediately mobilised, • The bomb at Coggeshail made a hole eight feet in diameter, and-two feet deep. , _ ; . Another burst in a garden at Colchester, shattering the windows; of a, residence, and damaging the furniture. Sergeant Robjohn, who lives in the house, says that .a terrific explosion oocurred, and the room was swept by shrapnel bullets. He rushed upstairs to resoue a sleeping baby, and although the room had been partially wrecked, the baby was not hapned. The house,' and furniture were riddled* and the windows of adjoining houses broken. Braintree is 32 miles west by south of the East English port of Harwich • Coggeshail lies about 6 miles from Braintree,' and Colchester lies between Braintree and Harwich. MOVEMENTS OF THE RAIDER. (Reo, February, 23, 0.30 a.m.) London, February 22. • The aeroplane appeared abore Braintree' from the direction of London, and proceeded to Colchester, and dropped a bomb olose to a soldier's cottage, near the Barracks. It gave off dense fumes, and fragments, wrecked the kitchen, in which there was a hole sft. in diameter. : Pieces of shrapnel were found 250 yards away.