In the Air
THE RAID ON DUNKIRK. KILLED WOUNDED [United Peess Association.] Paris, April 4. A communique says that a Zeppelin dropped eight bombs on Dunkirk last night, doing small material damage. Two civilians were killed and four wounded. , ALL ALLIED REPRISAL. FOUR MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN. Paris, April 4. Thirty-one Allied aircraft, as a reprisal for the Dunkirk raid, dropped eighty-three heavy bombs on enemycantonments in the Houthhoulst region.
Our aviators downed four more German machines in the Verdun region. THE RAID ON SCOTLAND. RESIDENTIAL QUARTER VISITED. London, April 3. The raid took place over the residential quarter of a Scottish town. No public building of importance was struck. Five persons were killed in a passage adjoining a tenement building, and two domestics were killed in a doctor’s house. Two hotels were struck, and'Several people were killed or seriously injured.
EFFECT ON THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. London, April 4. England is not perturbed at the air raids on three successive nights. Newspapers emphasise the fruit* lessness of these murderous invasions, which have not had the slightest military achievement, but only resulted in killing unfortunate civilians. The bombs were dropped mostly on the poorest quarters, except in the Scottish city, where hotels suffered, although the Zeppelins cruised about for several* Kourh, drawing a' 'boilfbai'd* ment. Indications point to the authorities
being better prepared now. THE RAID ON SCOTLAND. FOLLOWING THE AIRSHIPS. VISITING CARDS LEFT. - (Received 11.30 a.m.) London, April 4. Details of the flight of the Zeppelin, which flew over Scotland , show that in flying over the coastal town, it used a search light and dropped three bombs in a field next from a great height over an important borough. It was clearly visible, and was soon a target for the anti-aircraft guns. The occupants then rapidly dropped bombs. One man partially dressed was killed in the street, and a child sleeping in a cot was killed. The Zeppelin proceeded to another centre, where the occupants of the houses had congregated in the basement. A bomb penetrated the pavement and exploded in a cellar in which many had taken refuge and a fragment of the same bomb killed a man on the opposite side of the street. Among the buildings which narrowly escaped was a hospital with eight hundred patients, including many wounded soldiers, and an establishment containing German prisoners. On a card picked up in an Eastern county of England was pencilled: Vengeance for L 19.” A message from a Zeppelin was picked up in Scotland stating: on Thursday.”
ENGLISH ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCES IMPROVING. (Received 11.15 a.m.) London, April 4. In the House of Commons, Mr Tennant said that it was impossible to say to whom credit was due for bringing down the Zeppelin, The new defences against aircraft had proved very successful. More than one attack had been driven off unknown to the inhabitants.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 2, 5 April 1916, Page 5
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