ANOTHER AIR RAID

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 23, 22 October 1917, Page 5

ANOTHER AIR RAID

EASTERN COUNTIES AND LONDON j ATTACKED ' 27 KILLED ; 53 INJURED ; • ■ . i (Roc. October 21, 5.5 j/.m.) , London, October 20. j Six or seven airships attacked the cast- '. era and north-eastern counties, and pro- : eeeded some distance inland, but no very ■: definite- attacks were made. Bombs were i dropped at various points, including a lew in the London. i According to latest Tcports 27 were kill- ■ j ed and 53 injured. Some material dam- ' ; age was dono to houses and business : places.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. . j RAID CAUSED NO EXCITEMENT j MANY BOMBS DROPPED IN FIELDS. \ (Eec. October 21, 11,15 p.m.) ; London, October 20. \ A feature of last night's air raid on. / j London was the silence and the absence ' of excitement. llesidents o£ many of the suburbs were unaware of the raid. ; Official -warning was given cariy to the ■' people, and when several hours had pass- ) ed wiCiiout event they left their shelters j and went to their homes. The night I was calm, but hazy. The first 6hells ; fell about midnight, one-killing five per- . ; eons. Some provincial centres were visit- «j ed, but tho raiders iv«re uncertain <of j their whereabouts, and dropped many : bombs in fields. One dropped in the ' j outskirts of a town, crashed through fho ; coiling of a. -workman's house, killed the ; mother, and injured two daughters.— ' .; Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. :