OBJECTS OF THE RAID.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11644, 10 August 1916, Page 8

OBJECTS OF THE RAID.

V MERELY DESTRUCTION OF I ■ PROPrBTY. |- AND, OF COURSE, MURDER. IT Reuter. ivfijrr. g Received August 10, 1 p.m. £ London, August 9,. If It is officially'estimated that seven [ to. ten airships participated in the I-' 1 raid operating singly or in pairs, r Apparently indiscriminate destine tS tion of property was the main object. h HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. ■ ' ti THE AIR RAID. | LITTLE DAMAGE DONE. f, The High Oonimissioner reports—|A London, August 9ch, 4 p.m. The tVar Office reports last night r that in the air raid seven to ten air1' - ships were involved, none goingmore |- than a few miles inland. Indisl- criminate destruction of property ; was the apparent object of the raid- ( ers. Anti aircraft guns in action ' in four places seem to have’been successful in nearly every [case in i- driving oft' the raiders, one of whom f was pursued several miles seawards r by a naval plane. ‘ The bombs mostly fell wide of any r centre of population. An exception was north-eastern town where s one man died of shock and two * women and three children were f killed and twelve persons injured. l ’- In another town one man, one woman and three boys were injured. Other casualties were four houses partly burnt, windows broken and . . fifty feet of railway torn up, one horse killed and lesser'damage done but none of military importance.