MOTHER AIR-RAID ON ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2725, 21 March 1916, Page 5

MOTHER AIR-RAID ON ENGLAND

BY FOUR SEAPLANES

ONE PURSUED AND PUT OUT

OF ACTION

The High Commissioner reports: London, March 19, 10.10 p.m. "Four German seaplanes flew over Dover, Deal, Ramsgate, Margate, and \Vestgate to-day. The 1 casualties were: Killed, 3 men and 1 woman, and 5 children; injured, 17 mejn,s women, and 9 children. Altogether 48 bombs weredropped. Material damage was done to Soveral houses.

"Flight-Commander Bone, in a single-seater aeroplane, pursued ono of the German seaplanes thirty miles out to sea, where, after a quarter of an hour's action, the enemy was forced to descend, the observer being killed."

LATER DETAILS. (Rec. March 20, 10.55 p.m.)

London, Maroh 20,

Two seaplanes appeared off Dover at two o'clock in tho afternoon, and dropped six bombs in the harbour. From there they bombed the town;* Then, one proceeding to' a bombing attack in Deal, two others - appeared at Ramsgate 'and bombed the town. One went north, a British aeroplane pursuing it. and the other went, to Westgate, where several of our aeroplanes iire. pursuing. Altogether forty-eight brmibs were dropped, one falling in the Canadian Hospital in Ram'sgate, caus-' ing damage.

Thei'e were no casualties. Several houses were damaged, ..and artisans' cottages wrecked. < ,

Flight-Commander Bone, in an aeroplane, pursued the German seaplane for thirty miles to seaward/ and after an action of a quarter of an hour forced tho'German enemy to descend. He liit the German machine many times, and killed the observer.