THE AIR RAID
23 KILLED AND 50 INJURED
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE AT
SOTJ^HEND.
|AUBTRAUAN-NE.W ZBALAMD CABLB ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 13th August.
; The enemy's aeroplanes which raided i (he English "coast were seeji approach-. ' ing at a great height. Numbers of air- ; men ascended from Clacton and Mar- '■ §p.te to meet -them, &»£ sharp fighting
! followed. The •nti-nircraft guns wefe i also busy. From Margate the enemy! was driven seaward after dropping four bombs on the eastern part of the town. (AW. AMD N.Z. CAII.E ASSN. AND REtITEIU LONDON, 13th August. The Press Bureau states: The raiders caused considerable damage at Southend, where they dropped forty bombs. The casualties at present roported total eight men, nine women, and six children killed, and about fifty injured. Two men wero injured at Rochford, and 'an uninhabited houee at Margate «at dcmoliehed. There w«re no- cMiaifckm -ttoere. <
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 7
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