ONE ZEPPELIN CAPTURED AND ANOTHER DESTROYED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16344, 26 September 1916, Page 7

ONE ZEPPELIN CAPTURED AND ANOTHER DESTROYED.

TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS KILLED IN SOUTH LONDON. OTHER CASUALTIES REPORTED FROM THE PROVINCES, Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, September 24, The official report of the air raid on Saturday night states that 14 or 15 airships participated in the raid, and three attacked London These were of a large new pattern. The raiders principally visited the south-eastern, eastern, and East Midland counties, and Lincolnshire. Two. airships attacked London from the south-east between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., and another from the east between midnight and 1 a.m. Aeroplanes were sent up, and anti-aircraft guns opened fire and drove v off the raiders. Bombs were dropped in the southern and southeastern districts. Twenty-eight persons were killed, and 89 injured. Two of the raiders were brought down in Essex, one in flames, the crew being burned to death, and everything aboard destroyed. The second was brought down intact, its crew of 22 being captured. _ The damage in the provinces was slight. One town in the East Midlands received a number of bombs, two persons being killed and eleven injured. Dozens of houses and shops were wrecked, but there were no other casualties outside the metropolitan area, although numerous bombs were dropped, while the damage was insignificant. In the metropolitan area seventeen men, eight women, and three children were killed, and 89 injured, including 34 women and children. Much small property was damaged, and fires were caused in two factories. The railways were damaged in two places, but no military damage was done. Some 30 Zeppelins have been lost by Germany since the beginning of the war. Seven have been destroyed or wrecked on Belgian soil, five in Germany, five in Russia, four in France, four in England, three in the North Sea, one in Denmark, and one in Norway. Of the four destroyed in England the first was shot down by British gunners on April 1, and descended in the Thames Estuary, where it sank. The second was brought down on September 9 by Lieutenant William Robinson, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his deed. The other two have just been accounted for. Since the beginning of the war 53 raids have been made on England and Scotland. As a result 447 persons have been killed and 1136 injured.