AIRSHIP RAIDS
LIST OF THE ATTACKS ON ENGLAND. Following is a list of the German airship raids on Britain,-from the begining of the war up to the raid of last Saturday, and of the districts raided: — 1915. January 19.—Yarmouth and King's Lynn. April 14.—Blyth and Tyneside. April 16. —Lowestoft, Ipswich, and Bury St. Edmunds. May 10. —Southend. May 17.—Rams-gate. May 27.—Southend. May 31.—Outlying districts of London. June i. —East and South-east Coasts. June R. —East Coast. June 15.—North-east Coast, August 9;— East: Coast. August 12.—East Coast. August 17.—Eastern Counties. September 7.—Eastern. Counties September .■■..—Eastern Comities and j London district. September 11.'—East Coast. I Soptember 12.—East Coast. t j September. 13.—East Coast. October 13.—Eastern Counties and I London area. I 1916. January 31.—Midland Counties. March s.—Yorkshire and seven other Counties. (First airship brought down over Britain.) March .31. —Eastern Counties and North-east- Coast. April I.—North-east Coast. ' April 2.—Coast of Scotland and North and South-east Counties of England. April s.—East Coast. April 6.—North-east Coast, April 25.—Norfolk and Suffolk, Essex and Kent. May 2.—North-east of England and south-east of Scotland. July 29.—Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. August I.—Eastern and, Southern Counties. August 9.—East Coast of England-and Scottish Coast. August 24.—East and South-east Coast. ■ August 26.—London district. Soptember .2.—London district. (Second airship brought down over Britain.) September 23.—Eastern and Southeastern Counties. j (Third and fourth airships brought down.)
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 74, 25 September 1916, Page 7
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222AIRSHIP RAIDS Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 74, 25 September 1916, Page 7
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