ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID ON ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2736, 3 April 1916, Page 5

ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID ON ENGLAND

NINETY BOMBS DROPPED ONE RAIDER WRECKED THROUGH GUNFIRE '.''.. London, April 1, 2.15 a.m. The High Commissioner reports:— . . "Official.—Five Zeppelins raided the eastern counties of. England, arriving at different places'by.different'routes and times. Ninety bombs were dropped. It is also reported they visited the north-east coast." London, April 1, 12.20 p.m. "During the night a damaged Zeppelin came down oif the Thames estu. nry, and surrendered to a patrol cruiser. The crew was taken off, , and the Zeppelin taken in tow, but broke up and sank." * PEOMPT .REPORT BY THE WAR OFFICE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. April 2, 6.5 p.m.) London, April 1. The War Office reports: —The Zeppelin raiders were organised in two squadrons and a detached airship; the former made the eastern counties their objective, while the detached ship raided the, north-east coast. Fiftyfour explosive' and incendiary bombs w ere dropped in the eastern counties and twenty-two on the'north-east coast. The wrecked Zeppelin Lls was hit by gun-fire while over the eastern counties. A sliell struck the upper part at the rear of the tail. It quickly dropped to a lower altitude, and well down by the tail, when it descended into the\, sea off Kent. A machine-gun, so me ammunition, a petrol tank riddled with shrapnel and some machinery were dropped by this vessel on another raider. The casualties reported up to the present are twenty-eight killed and fortyfour injured. THE WRECKED ZEPPELIN WAS BROKEN IN TWO (ltec. April 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 1. ■ Two of the Lls Zeppelin's officers and sixteen of the crew have been conveyed to Chatham, also nine wounded members of the crew to a hospital there. The commander wore a sealskin coat, the others were iii ordinary naval uniCaptain Pell, of the steamer Svantholm, saw Lls floating near the" Kentish Knock early in the morning. Earlier he heard heavy firing in the air, and the steamer rocked violently. He described the Zeppelin as being about seven hundred feet in length. It was broken in two, and was evidently often ut>. A German crawled along the envelope as she lay in the water and held up his hands as a sign of surrender.' When the boats from the patrol ships rowed up the heads of others were visible through the manhole. The forepart of the airship was thirty feet, and' the stern twenty feet above water, and was then floating buoyantly. THE SCENE WAS MOST ENTHRALLING. (Rec. April 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 1. There was intense joy in. the metropolis at the prompt announcement of the Zeppelin's downfall. . .'.in- m\ n r \n eye-witness states that the scene was most enthralling lhe Zeppelin was of a 'larger type than usual. The night was starry, when a huge glimmerin" shape attracted attention. Hundreds left their houses, despite instructions Searchlights illuminated the raiders from stem te stern, and shells from tho anti-aircraft guns were seen bursting round the Zeppelin, which turned and mo.do for the const, evidently damaged, t