THE ZEPPELIN RAID ON NORFOLK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2756, 27 April 1916, Page 5

THE ZEPPELIN RAID ON NORFOLK

MAINLY A COASTAL EXCURSION FANTASTIC REPORTS PROM GERMANY By Telesrauh—Press Assooiatlon-Gonrrlglit London; April 25. The War Office reports that four or five Zeppelins made an. air raid on Norfolk and Suffolk. Only two seriously attempted to penetrate inland. . Seventy bombs were dropped. One man is reported seriously injured. ' No further details of casualties are available. ANOTHER FRUITLESS RAID. The High Commissioner reports:— ; ' London. April 26, 4.45 a.m. ; "Airships raided Essex and Kent on Tuesday night. Their number is uncertain, but cannot have oxceded four. The_ raiders were driven back by our anti-aircraft gun-fire, raiders, having anti-aircraft gun-fire. ; The raiders achieved little or nothing.". , AIR AFFAIRS ON THE BRITISH FRONT. ! (Rec. April 26, 11.25 p.m.) London, April 26. Sir Douglas Haig reports that 29 aerial combats occurred on Monday. All attacks were driven off. Two of the enemy's machines fell into the German lines. FRENCH BRING DOWN A FOKKER. (Rec. April 26, 11.25 p.m.) Paris, April 26. A French official 'communique states: —"We brought down'at various points four of the enemy's planes, including one Fokker. . One of our dirigibles dropped sixteen shells on Conflans station." ,

RAIDS BY THE BRITISH SOME DASHING EXPLOITS (Rec. April 26, 9 p.m.) London, April 26. The Admiralty announces that on the morning of April 23, in spito of the inclement weather, the British naval aeroplane bombed the enemy's aerodrome at Mariankerke (in Flanders) with good results, and returned safely. "One of our fighting machines brought down one of the enemy's aeroplanes. ■ "A further attack was delivered on the morning of April 24 ; carried out with the same objective, in co-operation with the Belgians. A large number of bombs were dropped. Our machines encountered a heavy fire. There wore no British casualties. "A British seaplane the same day attacked one of the enemy's seaplanes live miles off Zeobruggo. The enemy's pilot was killed, audi the observer fell out of the maohino at a height of three thousand feet. The seaplane crashed into the soa and sank."

GERMAN ACCOUNTS. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Sorvicos.) London, April 25. The Berlin "Lokal Anzeiger" says:— "The English are incomprehensibly silent regarding the latest. Zeppelin attacks, as those at the beginning of the month were o:>c«ptigmi.lly successful." This journal gives w imaginative ao

count of an alleged raid on London on April 1,- including the destruction of aeroplane works, at Holland Park, a factory in Marylobone Road, munition works at Purflcet, ships and armed merchantmen in docks at Edinburgh and Leifli, great damage v to munition depots and ironworks, many of which are in ruins, a' railway station damaged, and a train destroyed. A version of the raids in other districts is-equally, fantastic. ' . '• . "