THE ZEPPELIN RAID

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2840, 3 August 1916, Page 5

THE ZEPPELIN RAID

SIX AIRSHIPS COUNTED AUBtralian-Ncw Zealand Cable Association.; London, August 1. • Bctwoon 10 o'clock and midnight sov- \ oral airships attacked the eastern and j south-eastern counties. Owing to the' j great height and mists the number of. ' Ships is not certain, but at least six were ! counted, and thero was probably a seventh, which did not drop bombs. The number of .bombs said to have been dropped, is greatly exaggerated, because they fell in thinly-inhabitod districts and were heard at great distances. Sixty bombs were found. ! Our aircraft and anti-aircraft guns engaged a raider, which -was secn : to drop to a low altitude, and disappeared in the mist. • ■ The Press Bureau reports that tho air raid caused no casualties. WAS A RAIDER HIT? Australian-New Zealand Cable Associatiotf. (Rec. August' 2, 7 p.m.) ' London, August 1. One of the Zeppelins, after tho antiaircraft guns had fired at her, was seen to stop, tremble, • and then dive. Tho raiders used aerial torpedoes. GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. '; (Rec. August 2, 7 p.m.) London, August 1. i Tho Gorman official report states:— "Our Zeppelins successfully attacked Loudon and the-eastern counties. The ' nnti-aircraft batteries, industrial, military, and naval works were shelled. The - , Zeppelins' wero not damaged." 'J'ho Press Bureau points out that cither the airships had .no idea of their course- or the übovo report was dcliber- . ately falsified.