TWO ZEPPELINS RAID EAST COAST OF ENGLAND
SIX CIVILIANS KILLED AND TWENTY-THREE INJURED. ONE ZEPPELIN SUPPOSED TO BE DAMAGED. 3 Wellington, August 14. \ ..ifl The High Commissioner has sent the following report from London, under date August 13: "The Admiralty announces^that 4 ;;il two Zeppelins visited the East Coast between 9.30 p.m. and midnight last night, dropping incendiary and explosive bombs at various placesThe casualties were: Killed, 4 men and 2 women injured, 3 men, li ',-." women, and 9 children : all civilians. Fourteen houses were seriously vg damaged. ; J| ''The Zeppelins were engaged at some points, but succeeded in . : ; getting away from the aircraft patrols. One Zeppelin was probably damaged by our mobile anti-aircraft section."~.'*.. - c^"_
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15997, 16 August 1915, Page 7
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