THE ZEPPELIN RAID ON ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 24, 23 October 1917, Page 5

THE ZEPPELIN RAID ON ENGLAND

SQUADRON UNCERTAIN OF ITS WAY. London, October 21. A ieature of last night:i . o{ t]w 61lburbs wero una , W!ir e of the sence o£ excitement. Residents or y an i w hen several hours raid. Official .warning given earlj to S homes, had passed withocit first 6he i ls fell about midnight, one killing five persons.' . Some^^ n^ p^ re m^ t< bi«ta t in field! Onelwp^l'

FOUR WAY-LAID ON RETURN BY THE FRENCH being captured. Two other raiders wero damaged. WHY DID THEY ESCAPE FROM ENGLAND? London, October 21. The "Sunday Times" flays lhat Londoners and Englishmen are chained that a fleet of Zeppelins should be able to visit the capital and C _ E °*P o -tyngag "Somebody has blundered; how otherwise can one explain the strange shyne of the searchlights and the consequent silenco of our vaunted barrag N.Z. Cable Agsti. NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN KILLED London, October 2!. During tho air raid Lieutenant Solomon, ot the Koyal Fiyinß JA'l' n I raS ,vent ed. He ascended from an air station in an eastern county. Something « wrong with his machine, which dashed to earth. Lieutenant Solomon was a l\e« Zealaudcr, and had served in Mesopotamia. r'i'ho late Lieiitonan; Solomon was well known in cuiuinerciiil circlcs here. He left. New Zciland with ono of the early rciuforcomenls, liLnding in J-S7l)c. ilater he was transferred to lingland, and attached to the Imperial I'lyrUe> jI > being ultimately, after having seen service in Vranco, stationco near i- • Mr. .r. V. Solomon, of Kclburn, is * brother. Mr. T. Salek, of The lerrace, is an tmclc.l