ZEPPELIN BOMB-DROPPER VISITS CALAIS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2393, 24 February 1915, Page 5

ZEPPELIN BOMB-DROPPER VISITS CALAIS

SEVERAL FATALITIES i ; London, February 22. A Zeppelin dropped bombs on Calais; Five people were killed and several houses wrecked. nn Galajs, February 22. A Zeppelin appeared at 5 o'clook in the morning. Five bombs were dropped, three of which did no harm. The population is calm. (Rec. February 23, 10.31 p.m. Paris, February 23. Official.—The Zeppelin dropped ten bombs on Calais. Five of tlie victims were civilians. '• DETAILS OF THE DAMAGE. '■ (Rec. February 24, 1.40 a.m.) Calais, February 23. The Zeppelin first aimed at the railway and subsequent bombs out a house clean m half from top to bottom. An octoginarian, a young girl, and also a family were sleeping' on the ground floor. The father, mother,- ■ and two children were buried in the Tuins. All were killed except the baby, which was recovered unharmed _ from under a mass of plaster. , THE AEROPLANE RAID ON ENGLAND. London, February 22. Thenarrowest'escape'atßraintree was in a soldier's cottage, where there was a sleeping baby, whose room was shattered by shrapnel. (Rec. February 23, 10.36 p.m.) London, February 23. Corporal Large and Private Goodall placed a stick through the ring on a bomb which landed at Braintree and carried it while the fuse was burning to the river, where it was immersed. BRITISH BOMB-DROPPER VISITS BLANKENBERGHE. 1 Amsterdam, February 22. The "Telegraf" states that a bomb which was dropped by a British aeroplane on a tramcar at Blankenberghe (on the Belgian coast, between Ostend and Zeebrugge) killed-thirty-three and injured fifty-two people. (Rec. February 23, 10.35 p.m.) Amsterdam, February 23. The "Tjid" states that a number of the British aeroplane bombs during the recent big raid fell on the coast batteries between Knocke and Zeebrugge and destroyed many of the guns.' An officer and seven men were killed near Knocke, in addition to others who were serving the guns. . Not a single civilian or house was Injured in Zeebrugge. i " ■ ZEEBRUGGE REPORTED TO HA YE BEEN ABANDONED. (Rec. February 24, 0.10 a.m.) Amsterdam, February 23. Travellers state that the naval base at Zeebrugge has been abandoned owing to British raids. ' THE CRUISER RAID ON ENGLISH COAST TOWNS / STATEMENT BY BRITISH PREMIER. London, February 22. - The Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), speaking in the House of Commons, said that in the late bombardment of the East Coast thirty-nine women arid thirty-nine children were killed, and 133 women and 177 children wounded. The total of civilians killed is 127,' and wounded 560.