Second Edition. In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 50, 4 February 1916, Page 6

Second Edition. In the Air

DESTRUCTION OF A ZEPPELIN

SINKING IN THE NORTH SEA

The High .Commissioner reports:— London, February 3 (8.40 p.m.) The Admiralty announce ihat a Zeppelin is reported to he in a sinking condition in the North Sea.

THE MIDLANDS RAID,

THE TRAGIC DETAILS.

HOURS OF SUSPENSE.

MOVEMENTS OF THE ZEPPELINS

Unit«d Pbkss Association. (Received a.m.) London, February 3. The Zepeplius hovered over a Derbyshire town on Monday from eight o'icloek till midnight, occasionally dropping bombs, causing some casualties. . .

Another Zepeplin hung over a Staffordshire town and nineteen incendiary bombs in a harbor,

two being near picture theatres and the third near a theatre. Another set fire to a brewery, arid a bomb wrecked

a missiqn room. * A Zeppelin hung over a Leicestershire town from eight to 10.30 o'clock, dropping four bombs, killing and injuring several and damaging a number of houses. The Daily Chronicle, says:—ln a i small area in Staffordshire twenty-six '* persons were killed and ten injured. Two separate visits 'were made here and. the whole district reverberated with the explosions.. As the; result of one explosion thirteen people were killed. One bomb; made a hole in the road seven feet deep and ten Feet wide. A family of five were killed in one house which was reduced to a heap of bricks and mortar. All the tenements in this street are windowless. -A number of people state that, the Zeppelins were Hying very low. Incendiary bombsjcfell on the roof of a theatre in Staffordshire and rolled on the street. The audience huddled in the darknes%until the danger passed, and then sling The National Anthem. A lady lecturer in a parish hall was killed, also two women in the audience. The bombs wrecked a billiard room, «.. killing a player,'while his opponent escaped uninjured. Three Zeppelins crossed the Norfolk coast at a leisurely Ispeed and dropped twenty bombs, which wrecked a farmhouse!, but there were no casualties. A small town in Lincolnshire was damaged. as ■ q i i ; :n■-, ,> ■- A bomb fell in a Derbyshire town, killing three men. Other missiles fell harmlessly in the open country. > WAR OFFICE REPORT. The War Office says that in Monday's raid thirty-three'men, 20 women and six children were killed, and til'tyone men, 48 women, and two children injured. One church and a Congregational chapel were badly damaged. A parish room was wrecked and four-, teen houses demolished, while a great number were less seriously and some not seriously damaged. The railway property was damaged in two places only, and two factories were struck but neither were of military importance, and a brewery was badly dam- ' : aged. Two or three other factories •' were slightly damaged. The total bombs discovered were three hundred, many of those falling in rural districts being harmless. There was.much loss of life and damage to property in the thicklypopulated suburbs in Staffordshire. Ten houses were blown to pieces, and a bomb killed six persons who were walking within a radius of thirty yards in Leicestershire. ■