In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 51, 27 September 1916, Page 5

In the Air

RAID ON MONDAY NIGHT.

THE MIDLANDS ATTACKED.'

TWENTY-NINE DEATHS RE-

PORTED.

NO MILITARY DAMAGE DONE.

The High Commissioner reports:— | London, September 20 (12.40 p.m.) A British official report states that 'seven airships raided England last | night on the south-east, north-east, 1 all d north Midlands, lirincipally at the industrial centres, hot .no damchine to l 'the factories from Li.-rm'ditarv;, standpoint/ Borne small ] houses word wrecked and some daiu- , aged. .. , ! Twenty-nine deaths were caused. I ThO'airships were successfully driven off from several industrial centres. 'h 1 jpt 2 ss Association-Copyright, Austra T and N.Z. Cable Association. muu : !. London, September 25. I A bomb pierced the roof of a house ■in the London district and hung suspended in the rafters. Firemen mounted tin* roof 'and extinguished j the fuse. . Fishermen at Esbjerg report that !f our Zeppelins were travelling slowly south-east, apparently short of fuel. 1 One was damaged aft. ( Nothing has 1 moved the .German ! public for months like the loss of the Zeppelins. The Germans are'literally stunned. ) ' 1 i -The French raid on Essen i was disastrous. Incendiary bombs fired iKrupp’s worksheds.