ZEPPELIN RAIDS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2600, 23 October 1915, Page 11

ZEPPELIN RAIDS

LETTERS FROM WELLINGTON WOMAN. A New Zealand woman living in England writes interestingly of recent Zeppelin raids on England. In a letter to her mother in Wellington slio says that one night, at about 11 o'clock, sho was aroused from bed by a friend and told that guns wero firing and that probably an air raid was in progress. Little could he beard oxcept the sound of distant guns, but next day the writer found that the premises in which she usually occupies apartments bad been wrecked by a bomb. Another occupant of the building bad not retired for the night, and had slio been in bed she would almost certainly have been killed. The housekeeper had a terrifying experience. The building caught fire, and the flames barred lie? means of escape._ Sho was trapped in the burning building, with bombs dropping outside, and guns firing. Wlien the fire was put out, the woman was rescued. The writer says it is wonderful bow straight tbroupfa a bomb goes. Damage was dene to some streets, and many windows were broken. A railway station was damaged, some railway lines were torn up, and thore was interference with traffic. A station 'bus with nine people in it had a bomb dropped on it and almost disappeared, people and all. Searchlights wero on the Zeppelins all the time, and the people saw the British aeroplanes going for them. There was a rumonr (not confirmed) that one of the two Zeppelirs had been brought down. There wero vaids on four consecutive nights.