DETAILS OF THE RAID.
LONDON, Oct. 20
A feature of last night's raid over London was the silence and the absence of excitement among the residents. Many suburbs were unaware that the raid,had taken place. The offir cial warning was given early to the people, and, several hours passing without any event, they left their shelters and went to their homes.
The night was calm, but hazy. The first . shells fell about midnight, one killing, five persons.
Some provincial centres were visited, but the raiders were uncertain of their whereabouts, and dropped many bombs in the fields. One bomb dropped on the outskirts of a town and crashed through the ceiling of a workman's house. It killed the mother and injured her two daughters.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9125, 22 October 1917, Page 6
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