ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2847, 11 August 1916, Page 5

ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID

BIG SQUADRON BOMBS EAST COAST' DISTRICTS NOTHING ACHIEVED, AS USUAL Tho High Commissioner reports: London, August 9, ,11.25 n.ra. The War Offico announces that hostile airships crossed over the east coast of England early this morning, and'the south-east coast of The raiders did not penetrate far inland, but bombed' various localities to the eastward. In several places they wore engaged by our guns and driven from their objectivo. Three women and one ohild wero killed, while 14 were injured. There was no damage of military importance. London, August 9, 4.45 p.m. The War Office reports: "Last night's, air-raid was made by from seven to' ten airships, but none of them went more than a few miles inland. Indiscriminate destruction of property was the apparent object of the raiders. Our anti-aircraft guns were in action in four places, and seem to have been successful in nearly every case in driving off the raiders, one of which was pursued several miles to seawards by a naval aeroplane. Their bombs mostly fell wide of any centre of population. Ail exception was in a north-eastern town, where one man died of shock, two women and three children were killed, and twelve persons injured. In another town one man, onei woman, and'three boys were injured. Tliero wero other minor casualties." Copenhagen, August 10. Count Zeppelin voyaged to England on the occasion of the last Zeppelin raid. ENEMY'S AIRSHIP SHED BOMBARDED London, August 9, 6.25 p.m. The Higli Commissioner reports; "Tho Admiralty announces this morning that under a heavy fire an attack was carried out by British naval aeroplanes on tho enemy's airship shed at- Evere, near Brussels. Tho objective was successfully bombarded, from a height of 200 feet; eight bombs were observed to bit the shed, and heavy columns of white smoko were seen to issuo. Our machines returned safely." FRENCH AIRMAN'S FEAT Autftralian-New Zealand Cable Association. Paris, August 9. A French official communique states: "A French aviator crossed the Vosges and tho Black Forest, flew 217 miles; and bombed a powder factory at Rottweil, south-west of Wurtemberg. Great fires and many explosions followed." BELLIGERENTS' AIR LOSSES ACCORDING TO GERMANY. Amsterdam, August 9. A German communique states: "Our aerial losses in July totalled nineteon and the Franco-British oighty-one. Of the Allied machines forty-eight are in our hands."