THE WAR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1915, Page 2

THE WAR.

« (.EI.ECTIUO TELEGRAPH —COPYBIGBT ) IPKR I'll ESS ASSOCIATION.] ENGLISH TOWNS BOMBARDED. BY GEIUIA^TzEPPJiLIK , . London, Jan. 20. r A German aeroplane at 8.30 bombarded Yarmouth, doing considerable damage. A man's head w;is blown off. The aeroplane was plainly heard. A bomb fell on the sea iront, another on .South Quay, a third near the Drill Hall ami a fourth at Trinity Depot. After ten mi mites the attackers es caped in the darkness. It k now bleicved that it was n Zeppelin that bombarded Yarmouth. Five bombs were dropped and three persons were killed, and several houaes shattered'. Thence the Zeppelin went to Sheringham, and dropped two bonrfisjritliout doing much damage rl^'^~ It reached King's Lynn at 10.30 iiu'lgr dropped four bombs and thence flew on and dropped bombs near Sandringhnni. The King is in London. He left Sandringham on Tuesday afternoon. THE IMID EXPECTED. The news of the Zeppelin raid was published in London at midnight. Previously special constables were called out, firemen were at their stations, anti-aircraft guns were manned, and searchlights were playing throughout the evening in general expectation of the long-threatened Zeppelin coming. There was a sensation when the news fivm Sandringham was received. Fortunately the King had returned to London prior to the outrage. The night was dark and still. At Yarmouth places of amusement Here in full swing, and' there were many people in the streets when the noise of the propellors first attracted attention, then the aircraft was Been coming from ho north-east. By the flashes of the searchlights it was occasionally seen. It crossed the centre ol the town dropping bombs from low elevation. ■""«- Hearing explosions many streamed out of their houses, but others followed the advice of the authorities and concealed their families m the 'basements. The bulk of the damage was done to private houses. A bomb alighted )U

an empty house. Another struck a shop and blew off the head of aiuati limited .Smith .a shoemaker. Tlie authorities immediately cut off tlie electric light and the telephones. Police and special constables were despatched in every direction to succour the inpured. Fortunately no tires broke out. The Zeppelin proceeded to Altering- * ham where a bomb crashed through the roof of a- working man's house and entered a room where the man, his vvii© and chil(j slept. The bomb did not explode as the t use 'became detached during its rescent. Alter harmlessly dropping another bomb at .Boston it reached Kixig'6 Lynn at 11.15 from fe'andringham. (Special constables scoured the streets ordering the light out. Fire brigades followed. The lights of the Zeppelin frequently darted skywards. Altogther seven bombs were dri p ped. One killed a. boy aged 17, also burying his lather in the debris of his house, but the father was taken out alive. Elsewhere a babv and its mother were injured. lhe aircraft left eastwards. LATEST PAIITICULARS. lhe whole period of the bomb dropping did not exceed ten minutes. The first bomb at Yarmouth fell 011 the recruiting ground, immediately after the airship's searchlight flashed and the town and neighbourhood «c. shaken by reverberating explosions, windows being broken everywhere. When the bom'b fell 011 the Drill ■ Hall, which it struck but did not greatly damage, regardless of cautions, the majority of townsfolk rushed into the streets. Terrifying explosions followed in five or six part of she town. lhe lull damage will not be kuown until daylight and it is impossible at present to estimate the killed or injured. .

The ruinous condition of many buildings suggests that the casualty : may be heavy, particularly aa mauy people were at home at time. Ihe chief damage was in the congested jiiea in St. Peter's road, where it is reported that four were killed. The road is the main thoroughfare leading to the parade. The broken plate glass of shops cut several people. Ihe bombs broke the windows'iof 40 houses in Yarmouth, the scene resembling a gas explosion. Another 101 l near the quay, hut did 110 damage. A sentry fired at the Zeppelin. Smith's head was blown off twenty yards from the centre of the e.vplo-

*>ion, and an elderly woman was killed at distance of fifty yards. "• A green light was seen at sea, "'as conjectured to bo a signal to the aircraft showing the position of the CJennan vessel ready to assist the aviator in case of disaster. A resident of Sheriiighani status that there were two Zeppelins at 'east which were up 3000 l'ect. and made all awe-inspiring spectacle. The crash of four bombs following the one dropped made a whole in tho ground two feet deep which was n> hot that it w.-is imposible to put the hand near it for three-quarters of an hour. Later another was picked up une.vplocled. .1 child had a wonderful.escape. t<, had been put to bed and when it cried its parents brought it downstairs. A few minutes later a bomb fell through the bed where the little one wae sleeping.

One house at Sheringhain caught fire but it was not serious. Approaching King's tytiii the Zeppelin dropped a bomb on Snettiehatt, where Queen Alexandra has a bungalow, and dropped others on Dereinsrhatt. & -Many houses in King's Lynn were damaged, doors were wrenched from ' their hinges, window® shattered, furniture scattered and fragments of masonry were hurled several hundred yards.

« ATTACKS REPULSED. HL Pefcrograd, Jan. 20. Official There were a series of on counters throughout the 17th on the right bank of the Lower Vistula front extending from the river to the Olva Iγ Warsaw railway. The enemy's ofifonm sivo was rojMidscd at .iglerzin, and I tlicy fell back with heavy loss. I Thero has been no change on tlio If' : ther fronts. W- high commissioner's I HEPORT. E London. Jan. 20. P Petrograd reports that t-lii> pursuit I of the Turkisli army continues, and it I is being driven out of the TranswT Chorok region. There have, been heavy I Turkish losses. I Our fiirtlier movement <m the Ivower I Vistula continues successfully . Wβ There wero important encounters at J Kuiiopiemce and Vezhuni. I A German battery attempting to k shell was eilcuced.