ANOTHER AIRSHIP RAID.
ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND ATTACKED.
BOMBS DROPPED IN YORKSHIRE. LONDON, May 3. (Received May 4, at 0.45 a.m.) Field-marshal French reports that five airships attacked the north-east of England and south-east of Scotland last night. The movements of tho raiders are uncertain.
A few bombs were dropped in Yor] shire.
There are 110 details.
WAR IN THE AIR.
AEROPLANE LOSSES IN APRIL.
LONDON, May 2. An examination of the official reports for April shows that 72 aeroplanes were destroyed in the month, of which four were British, 20 were French, and 48 were German. NEW ZEALAND WOUNDED. TO GO TO ENGLAND. LONDON, May 2. (Received May 3, at 9.30 p.m.) Tt lias been definitely arranged that the New Zealand wounded shall come to England. New Zealand will now be in line with Australia, enabling the co-ordination of arrangements in connection with the Anzac army.
GERMAN EAST AFRICA.
RAINS SET IN.
LONDON, May 2. (Received May 3, at 9.30 p.m.) General Smuts reports that the rains have set in with great violence. The enemy are strongly entrenched in the hills to the south-east of the Kondoairangi Lake.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16685, 4 May 1916, Page 5
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188ANOTHER AIRSHIP RAID. Otago Daily Times, Issue 16685, 4 May 1916, Page 5
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