ZEPPELIN RAID ON ENGLISH TOWNS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15823, 21 January 1915, Page 5

ZEPPELIN RAID ON ENGLISH TOWNS.

BOMBS DROPPED ON YARMOUTH AND KING'S LYNN.

THREE PEOPLE KILLED AND HOUSES SHATTERED...

ROYAL ESTATE AN OBJECT OF ATTACK.

By Telegraph-Pr>3s Association—Copyright.

(Received January 20, 5 p.m.)

London, January 19.

A German airship, at first reported to be an aeroplane, at 8.30 p.m. dropped bombs on Yarmouth, on the Norfolk coast, doing considerable damage. A man's head was blown off. The airship was plainly heard. One bomb fell on the sea front, another on the sonth quay, a third near the drill hall, and a fourth near the Trinity depot. After remaining over the town for ten minutes, the airship escaped in the darkness. A later message states: It is now believed that it was a Zeppelin that visited Yarmouth. Five bombs were dropped. Three people were killed and several houses were shattered. From Yarmouth the Zeppelin went north to Sherringham, and dropped two bombs without doing any damage. The raider reached King's Lynn, on the Wash, at 10.30 p.m., and dropped four bombs. Near Sandringham, seven and a-half miles north of Lynn, more bombs were dropped Earlier advices from Amsterdam stated that the Amsterdam Telegraaf reported that three Zeppelins passed Tcrschelling, off the north coast of Holland, travelling westward.