ZEPPELIN RAID

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9690, 19 June 1917, Page 6

ZEPPELIN RAID

a PERSONS KILLED, 16 INJURED ACTIVITY OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCES. High Commissioner's Cablo. LONDON, June 17, 5.10 p>>m. The Zejipolin raid was carried out by two airships. One crossed the Kentish coast, dropping six bombs on a coast town, killing two and injuring sixteen persons. The second attacked an East Anglian town about 2.50 a.m. It was heavily .shelled by anti-aircraft defences and'driven off. probably damaged by tho gunfire. Shortly after the raider was engaged and brought down flaming bv a pilot of tho Royal Flying Corju, and was destroyed. There were no casualties or damage in East Anglia. ATTACK ON SOUTH-EAST COAST AERIAL TORPEDOES USED. Bv Telcgraph-l J rcsa Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, LONDON, June 17. Tlio street's in a- south-east coast town attacked by Zeppelins arc strewn with broken glass. Aerial, torpedoes Were the principal missiles itsed. Sorno residences were damaged, and the occupants had a miraculous escape. A TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT AIRSHIP DESCENDS IN FLAMES AMID CHEEKS. By Telegraph— Press Association— Copyright ' Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, Juno 17. Reports from an East Coast town state that, following a thunderstorm, the night was still and clear. Thousands of people were aroused from sleep by a terrific bombardment. ,Searchlight* picked up the raider, which had penetrated a few miles inland. Aircraft and guns gave it a hot reception. and the oirship was soon aflame, and descended somd . distance away, amid tremendous cheering. Tho first explosion occurred in tho town- on the south-east coast, about 2 o’clock in the morning, when aerial torpedoes and explosive and incendiary bombs were dipped. A fire which resulted was quickly extinguished. A torpedo damaged some old cottages ami private residences. BIK MANGLED BODIES SCATTERED OVER ADJACENT’ FIELDS. AVIATOR’S SPLENDIDLY DARING ACT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, United Service Telegram. (Received June 18 11.10 p.ra.) LONDON, Juno 18. Tho Zeppelin crew perished. Tho mangled bodies of sis who* jumped from the wreck wore scattered over the adjacent fields. It _is believed that eight or ton remain in tho wreckage. An eye-witness watched tho Zeppelin for forty minutes. It was apparently winged by our guns. Throe aeroplanes approached, and the fastest seemed as if it intended to ram tho airship. Instead of doing so it (-limbed over it, peppering its whole length. It was a splendidly daring and clean piece of work. The airship was set afire from end to end, and drifted slowly downward. . THE REGENT RAID ON LONDON NEW TYPE OF DEADLY BOMB USED. OBJECT OF GERMANS TO FRIGHTEN PEOPLE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian eScl N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, June 17. At the inquest on the victims of the recent, aeroplane raid, the evidence disclosed that the Germans tiro using a new typo of bomb filled with shrapnel, which is less destructive to property, but deadly to life. A girl was killed fifty yards away by fragments of shrapnel which l had passed through two intervening houses. Aviation experts are unanimous that there is no bomb-dropping device in ex. istence capable of dropping bombs 12,000 feet, or anything like that distance, with precision. Therefore, the nolo object of the raids on London is to frighten tho people. It would ho only playing the enemy’s game to divert aeroplanes from the West front, (but tho public is justified in demanding that sufficient machines be retained in England to meet the raiders on equal terms. RUTHLESS REPRISALS DEMANDED BY LONDON CITIZENS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. (Received June 18, 6,40 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 18. A crowded meeting at the London Opera House, the Lord Mayor presiding, resolved that systematic, ruthless reprisals were the only means cf bringing homo to the German peoplo the inhumanity and cruelty of their dastardly criminal air raids. Tho motion called upon the Government to initiate immediately a policy of ceaseless air attacks on German cities. HUN INHUMANITY HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF BELGIANS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, June 18. Dr Arrowsmith, of tho American Belgian Relief Committee, states that, owing to the awful brutalities, the Belgians’ hatred of Germany is growing hotter every day. Ho visited a hospital to see people who had returned from, deportation. It was heartrending to see such wrecks. Men of twen-ty-five looked sixty. Some men had black feet, as the result-of the favourite punishment of making them stand in water for twenty-four hours. Ho saw horrible bruises and unhealed wounds, the result of clubbing and kicking. Men were dying in the hospital at the ny.e of two a day.