GROUND SHAKEN AS IF BY EARTHQUAKE.
FRAGMENTS FALL AT DISTANCE OF TEN MILES.
WOMEN APPREHEND RAID BY A ZEPPELIN.
(Roceired May 28, 11.35 p.m.)
London, May 28.
Two little girls who were playing on a verandah at Port Victoria were struck by falling wreckage and killed. Places 10 miles south-west of Sheerness were covered with falling fragments. Houses at Sittingbourne were shaken, and windows broken.
The ground trembled as if there was an earthquake. Women rushed into the street with children, fearing a Zeppelin raid. Several were injured at Sittingbourne. A boot, collar, tie, and a pound of butter fell into a garden at Rainham, four miles distant.
Two dockers who were returning to the Princess Irene in a Government pinnace state that they were obliged to take refuge in the cabin from the rain of burning debris. When they were able to emerge there was no sign of the vessel, on which they had been working an hour earlier. She had been blown into the minutest fragments. There was little disturbance of the water, which was as black as ink-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 7
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181GROUND SHAKEN AS IF BY EARTHQUAKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 7
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