DETAILS FROM SCOTLAND.
HOSPITAL NARROWLY
ESCAPES
ALSO GERMAN PRTSON ESTAB-
LISHMBNT.
(Received April 5, 11.30 a.m.) London, April 4. Details from Scotland state that a Zeppelin, flying over sy costal town, used a searchlight and dropped1 threo bombs in a field. Next it rose to a great height over an imnortant borough. It was clearly visible and
was soon a target for ■ anti-aircraft ■= guns. It rapidiy dropped bombs. A \ maii partially dressed, was, killed in I tlie street, and a child sleeping in n->s J cot was kelled.. (
The Zeppelin proceeded, to another centre, where the occupants of the houses were congregated' in thy basements. Bombs penetrated the pavement and exploded in a cellar in wh-Ich -many had taken refuge, and a fragment of the same bomb killed a man on the opposite vside of tho street.
Amawg the fouildings which narrowly escaped was a hospital with 800 patients, including many wounded" soldiers,, and an establishment containing German prisoners. A card picked up in an eastern county of England' was pencilled: — "Vengeance for Ll9. A message from a Zeppelin was picked up in Scotland saying;—" Returning Thursday."
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Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 81, 5 April 1916, Page 5
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