ZEPPELINS AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2888, 28 September 1916, Page 5

ZEPPELINS AGAIN

RAID ON INDUSTRIAL CENTRES' v /. SKY-ASSASSINS DRIVEN /. OFF. | The High Commissioner reports :-*4 London, September 26, 12.40 p.m.' A . British official report states? ■ "Seven airships raided England last ■■< night on the south) east, north-east, j. and north Midlands, principally in tha industrial centres. No damage of miln j tary moment was done to the factories. i Some small houses were wracked and ' some damaged. Twenty-nine deaths ! wore caused. The airships were sue* : i cossfuly driven off several industrial y centres." . ' ' "■ • BAFFLED Bl r THE DARKNESS,.' (Rec. September 27, 5.30 p.m.) i ; London, September 2ff. ' ! Darknesß baffled the raiders, which' j cruised aimlessly about. A dozen; J bombs, mostly incendiary, fell upon si j North Midland town. Five houses ward demolished, eleven people being MUeoV ,j and five injured. ~'"'■! SUGGESTED INDICTMENT FOR MURDER.; ;j (Rec. September 27, 5.80 p.m.) j London, September 26.. 'At the inquest on the victims.of.thd .. j London raid the Coroner suggested; j that the crew of the Zeppelin, might! legally be held for murder, but did noli '■ press the point. i THE LOST ZEPPELINS j (Rec. September 27, 5.5 p.m.)' ■'■ ] London, September 26. ' The official ; report on the air raid which occurred on September 23-24 ( states: "It is established that our air* ships brought down the riaval ZeppeJ lins L 32 and L 33. Both of these of most Tecent construction. /The first airship was "destroyed by an aeroplanej' after passing through an effective pin' fire from below, and the second was* brought down by gunfire and loss of gas. ■.'.'"••' "The corrected casualties of the raid* • \ are: 23 men, 12 women, and 3 chil-* dren killed; 125 injured. Last nighty . I casualties: 36 killed; 27 injured; nd i military damage."