ANOTHER RAID ON LONDON

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 July 1917, Page 5

ANOTHER RAID ON LONDON

THIRTY-SEVEN KILLED AND 141 INJURED.

FOUR HOSTILE MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN.

LONDON, July 7. Twenty air raiders bombed London. In the^aerial fighting the damage was heavy. Three raiders were brought down over the sea. The British official roport states: About 9.30 a.m. a considerable number of hostile aircraft, probably two parties, appeared over the Isle of Thanet and the east coast of Essex. After dropping bombs on Thanet, the raiders proceeded to London, moving in parallel lines on the north bank of the* Thames and approaching London from the north-east. They then changed their course and proceeded north and west, crossing London from the north-west to the south-east. Bombs were dropped at various places in the metropolitan area. The number of raiders is uncertain, but was probably about- twenty. Our artillery and a large number of aeroplanes attacked the raiders, but the reports of results of the engagements and as to the damage and j casualties have not yet been received. , Admiralty naval aeroplanes engaged the returning raiding squadron forty miles from the east coast. Two enemy machines were observed to crash, into the sea, while a third fell in flames at the mouth, of the Scheldt. All ours returned. LONDON, July 8. British official: The latest casualties in to-day's air raid were: Twenty-eight men,, six women and three children killed; 70 men, 30 women and 37 children injured. Another of the enemy aeroplanes was brought down at the 'mouth of the Thames. The Admiralty states that at Dunkirk the flights that were watching for the returning raiders missed them, but encountered and destroyed many seaplanes. They also downed four aeroplanes.