Second Edition. In the Air.
, TH| MM ON ENGLAND, VICTIMS AND THE DAMAGE. United Prvm Aswocut.osi. (Received 1.40 .pm.) •London, April 2. Three bombs fell on one Eastern County town. The entire damage nw done by, the first, which demolished two wprkmen'a dwellings. The inmate of one was killed. Three inmates in an adjoining house perished under a mass of.wreckage. Two or three ; Zeppelins passed to • and fco. An explosive bomb in another town killed a married- couple in a -ctfttage. Then an incendiary bomb wrecked a house on the outskirts, fatally injur--1 ing an invalid lady.-' The fourth victim was a man who wag standing in a doorway on the opposite side of the road. This town was visited at eight and then at eleven o'clock, apparently the same Zeppelin returning. Raking the place with bombs, totalling fourteen, the Whole town wa's shaken. Walls fell and chimneys and roofs were damaged. Windows were everywhere shattered.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 100, 3 April 1916, Page 6
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156Second Edition. In the Air. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 100, 3 April 1916, Page 6
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