In the Air.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 2, 1 May 1915, Page 5

In the Air.

RAID ON IPSWICH. ZEPPELINS DROP BOMBS. HOUSES SET ON FIRE. onixed Phebb Association. Loudon, April 310. A air raid op Ipswich took place early on Friday. Several houses were blown up and set afire. (Ipswich is in Suffolk, on the Orwell estuary, 12 miles form the sea ami GS miles north-east of London. The population is over 70.000.) A Zepplin dropped several bombs on Bury St. Edmunds. (This town is 78 miles north-east of London. Population over 20.000.) PARTICULARS OF THE BOMBDROPPING. (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, April 30. The airship was first seen at Felistowe, being then at a great height. Ten bombs were dropped at Bury St. Edmunds, and thence the ship made eastward. One bomb fired and gutted St. Andrew’s Hall. REMARKABLE ESCAPES OF RESIDENTS. INCENDIARY AND EXPLOSIVE BOMBS. (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, April 30. The Zeppelin dropped two explosive and three incendiary bombs at Ipswich, two houses occupied by the residents who were abed, had a remarkable escape, the bombs falling on the back of the houses. One fell on the bedroom of a girl aged twelve, and immediately the furniture caught fire, hut the father rescued the child. The explosions caused many to run out on to the streets clad in the scantiest of clothing. Incendiary bombs at Bury St. Edmonds, fired a shop and stable, and three more bombs fell in the suburbs. A Zeppelin, flying at a great height, sailed westward.

NECK-TO-NECK RACE BETWEEN ZEPPELIN AND TRAIN, FIVE BOMBS THAT MISSED. (Received 10.5 a.in.) London, April 30. In a neck-to-neck race, the Zeppelin hurled five bombs on a fast train at Bury St. Edmunds, but missed. RUSSIAN BOMBS’ ON CZERNOWITZ. (Received 10.5 a.m.) Bucharest, April 30. A Russian aviator bombed Czernowitz barracks, killing several soldiers. THE CASUALTIES IN DUNKIRK. (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, April 30. The French Embassy states that nineteen shells have fallen in Dunkirk, twenty persons being killed and forty-five wounded. DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY. (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, April 30. Moohouse, the well-known a\iator, died of wounds received in bombing Courtrai. AMERICAN STEAMER BOMBED AT SEA. (Received 12.30 p.m.) London, April 30. German airmen threw two bombs at the American steamer Cushing when midway between North Foreland and Flushing, but no damage was done.