ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID ON EAST COAST

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2451, 3 May 1915, Page 5

ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID ON EAST COAST

EXPLOSIVES AND INCENDIARY BOMfeS NECK AND NECK RACE WITH A FAST TRAIN London,. April 30. 'An air raid wag mads on IpsTcicb early on Friday. Several Houses were blown up and set on fire. . A- Zepjjelin also dtopped sevetal bombs oh Bury St;. Edmunds. It was foggy When tie airship was first seen above Felixstowe at a great height. Ten bombs were dropped on Bury St. Edmunds, and the airship then made eastward. ■ . . ~ . . One bomb set.fire to and gutted Sti Andrews Hall. V The Zeppelin dropped two explosive and three incendiary bombs at Ipswich. Two middle-class nouses rtere burhed out. The residents were abed at the time, and had a remarkable escape, the bombs falling at the backs of ihe houses. One fell on the bedroom of a-girl aged-Welve yearSj and immediately the furniture oaught fire. Her father Tesoued the child. . , The exf>l6sions caused ffiaily.to run out on. to the streets m tbe scantiest clotting. Iticendiarj; bombs dropped at Bury St. Edmunds set fire to ft shop afld Stable. ■ ,i ~ , , Three toore boiribs fell m the suburbs, _ , , ~ ~ The ZeppSlin, rffc a great height, sailed m a Westerly direction. After i, iitek-Snd-heck raae, a Zeppelin hurled five bombs at a fast traui At Bury St. Edtnunds, but nlifised.

TWO SQUADRONS OP ZEPPELINS SIGHTED. CRec. May 2, 3.50 p.m.). London, May 1. Zeppelins were sighted on the'east <Soast. Ii is reported that four passed 'over Wells and four over Lowestoft. They were sighted at Well's at 6.30 in the evening, travelling coastwise, and were later seen travelling east. Warnings were circulated in the eastern counties, but without result. It is believed the airships returned homewards. No bombs were dropped. ■ TAUBE ON THE SUFFOLK COAST. ffieo. May 2, 8.46 p.m.) ; ' London, May 1: A Taube flew overSouthwold, a small town on the coast of Suffolk, in the afternoon, but British aerdpknes drove it off.