Wolff Surpassed

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 October 1916, Page 2

Wolff Surpassed

NEWiS '-MADE IX GERMANY." (Fioni London Times' Correspondent.) Amsterdam, August 3. The Lokalanzie.ger gives a "telegram" from the Telegraphic Union, dated Flushing. August 2, stating that a Dutch engineer who spent the night of -July 31-August 1 in a London suburb, witnessed the German airship attack. He stated, on his arrival at Flushing, to correspondents of the Telegraphic Union that he was a guest of the Anglo-Dutch rowing club and passed the night with his friends in a boat house on the Thames. The damage done was, he says, so serious that it was impossible to estimate it at once. (Several warehouses were destroyed, and' ships at anchor were seriously damaged. The excitement of the London populace was indescribable. He adds that a whole quarter of Huntingdon was burnt out, and the lose of human life in Kent was especially great.

■With reference to the above stor.v, I hear that no boat has arrived from England at Flushing for several days.

The Times goes on to say that the British War Office reports on the raid show that the Zeppelins did not reach London, and there were no casualties in the areas attacked. The German report .stated that London was raided, and the 'official comment was that either the raiders had no idea, of their course or their reports had been deliberately falsified.