WAR IN THE AIR:

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17595, 27 September 1917, Page 5

WAR IN THE AIR:

THE RECENT RAIDS. "THE CASUALTY LIST.' ;'. A. and N.Z. Cablo Association and .Eeuter. LONDON, September 25: - The Press Bureau reports that antiaircraft gunfire drove off » group of aeroplane raiders which approached, London last night. j>nly one,'or post sibly two, penetrated the defences. .

The casualties are now reported as' 15 killed and 70 injured. ' # Tho material damage was not great.

The enemy airships which crossed" to tho Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coasta did not penotrate far inland. " They attempted, to approach various defended localities, but our gunfire Idroya -them off. They dropped bombs ,011 a coast town and slightly injured j three women. Little damage was done.

(Received September 27, 12.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 26i

A high official informed the " Daily Express" that London's air defences were more efficient, and added: "Wo have stopped tho day raid, and thothna is not far distant when the Hun machines will como no more."

TEE GERMAN REPORT. A. and N.Z. Cable Association and Eeutcr. (Received September 26, 8-15 p.m.) LONDON, September, 25. A wireless German official messago 1 says:—Our aviators bombed London, Dover, Southend, Chatham, Skeeruesa and Dunkirk, causing fires. . ZEPPELINS FLY HIGH. ' (Received September 26, S p.m.) , LONDON, September 25. ; Zeppelins hovered over Yorkshire for.'' along time. The ."AIL clear" signal was given seven hours after the firs!) warning was issued. The airships wero aD a great height and were unseen from the ground., -

ANOTHER VISIT

TWENTY CASUALTIES CAUSED (Received September 26, 8.15 -p.m.) LONDON, September 25.

An official message says:—Aeroplane? crossed the Kent and Essex coasts at various points in the evening. A few bombs wore dropped. One raider penetrated as far as the south-eastern onl.skirts of London, dropping two bomb's. There were twenty casualties.