The Aerial Raid

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1915, Page 5

The Aerial Raid

ANOTHER ATTEMPT. ( ; \ ZEPPELIN AIR FLEET OVER NORFOLK COAST. (Received 1.35 p.m.) Unhid Prim -Association, London, January 23. Zeppelins, the number of which Is unknown, passed over Cromer at 10.30, proceeding Inland. “NOT WAR, BUT MURDER.” ITALIAN PAPER’S COMMENT. United Press Association.

(Received 9.15 a.m.) Rome, January 22. The Secolo says that the Germans action on the peaceful fields of Norfolk is not war, hut murder, and will make the Gennans’ position more difficult when peace is imposed. "OFFICIAL JUSTIFICATION.” Rome, January 22. Berlin furnishes an official justification of the air raid as follows : —‘ Our airships, in order to attack a fortified place, Yarmouth, were obliged to fly over other places, from which they were fired at. These attacks were answered by throwing bombs. "England has no right to be indig-, nant, for her flying-machines and ships attacked open towns such as Freiburg, Doras Salem and Sivakopmund. Germany cannot be forced to forego legitimate Isef-defence.”

A VERSION FOR FLANDERS i Tims* akd Sydney Sun Smbviom. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, January 22. The Germans in Flanders are greatly exultant. They were informed that Zeppelins had partly destroyed London, and that thousands of residents of Liverpool were voyaging to America. ASSISTANCE FOR AIRSHIP FROM MOTOR CAR. (Received 9.30 a.m.) i London, January 22. There is ■ trustworthy evidence that a motor car. at King’s Lynn and Snettisham used its headlights to indicate where tho airships was to drop bombs.