In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 44, 23 February 1915, Page 5

In the Air

ANOTHER RAID.

ZEPPELIN AT CALAIS.

FIVE BOMBS DROPPED.

FIVE PERSONS KILLED.

SEVERAL HOMES WRECKED

(Received Nonn.)

Calais, February-22.

A Zeppelin appeared over the

town at five o’clock In the morn-

ing and dropped five bombs.

three being harmless.

Five persons were killed.

Several houses were wreaked.

The population was calm.

HMD ON ESSEX.

GERMAN AEROPLANE WAR THREE BOMBS DROPPED.

NO CASUALTIES REPORTED.

United Press Association. London, February 22. Gerjnan aeroplanes dropped three bombs at Braintree, one at Colchester, and one at Goggeshall. The aeroplanes were moving towards Harwich. According to present reports no casualties occurred.

Colchester is a market town with a population of 34,000 in Essex. Has iron foundries, clothing and boot factories, t breweries and flour mills, Infantry and cavalry barracks are located here, and it is understood that the place has been fortified since the announcement of the war. Coggeshall, also in Essex, on the river Blackwater, has a population of 2600. Braintree, on the river Brain, in Essex, is 40'miles N.E. of London, six miles from Coggeshall. Population 5,500.

EFFECT OF THE EXPLOSIONS. An aeroplane appeared over Essex height. It could not he seen, but the noise of the propellers was plainly heard. The special constabulory in the district were immediately mobilised.

The bomb at Coggeshall made a hole eight feet in diameter, and two feet deep. Another burst in a garden at Colchester, shattering the windows of a residence and damaging the furniture. Sergeant Robjohns, who was in the house, says there was a terrific explosion, and the room was swept by shrapnel bullets. He rushed upstairs to rescue his sleeping baby, who was unharmed. The house and furniture were riddled, and the windows of adjoining houses were broken. The aeroplane appeared at Braintree from the direction of London and proceeded to Colchester, where it dropped a bomb close to a soldier’s cottage near the barracks. The explosive gave off dense'fumes and fragments wrecked the kitchen, and made a hole five feet in diameter. Pieces of shrapnel were found 250 yards away.

BABY’S MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.

(Received 11 a.m.) London, February 22

One of the narrowest escapes at Braintree was at the soldier’s cottage, where there was a sleeping baby whose room was shattered with shrapnel

THE YORKSHIRE RAID.

KILLED 127 : : WOUNDED 500.

(Received 11 a.m.) London, February 22

The Premier, Mr Asquith, in the House of Commons, said that in the late bombardment on the East Coast 3D women, and 39 children were killed, and 133 women and 117 children were wounded. The total number of civilians killed was 127, and the wounded 500.

Correction: East Coast wounded, 177; total, 560.

The Dean of Exeter, who recently attained his eighty-seventh birthday, made the ocasion notable by denouncing tbo war methods of Germany by a word which does not appear in the dictionary—“anicide,” meaning the murder of old women. It has been reserved to the Kaiser, declared the Dean, with a vigor surprising for his years, to bring two new factors into the region of war—infanticide and anicide.