The Zeppelin Raid on London

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 July 1915, Page 3

The Zeppelin Raid on London

4 On June <hx\ afternoon the press Bureau issued a short oflicial account n\ .Monday night's Zeppelin raid "in the. Motroplitan ami. , ' Four live*; were lost, and several were injured. X'o public building was injured, but a niMiiber of private premises were damaged. I'llic fires caused by tlie projectiles discharged from the husiile aiicrait were promptly dealt | with. About 90 bombs, mostly ol an incendiary nature were <lroj»ped. Km , obvious reasons the communi(|iii< does not .specify tlie ilistritits aifocted. but it is stated that the bombs were dropped in various localities not far distant from each other. Special constables \i ere called out. and tlie police "tore able to keep the situation throughly well in hand. The German official account of tlie raid describes it a.s a rc-'j pri.sal for the recent air attack on tho'i "open town" of LiKhvigslial'en (where the poison <£iis«s are ma<le). and slates that bonihs were dropped on "the workshops and docks of London." AutiGerinnn disturb;!neet> i!y;ain occurred in Lciidoii. feeling having been aroused by the Zeppelin raid. Shops in Slioiv.'itcli wliicli were supposed to belong to Germaiis iveix , attacked by an angry nioh. Special constables we're again called out.