DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES SLIGHT.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
(Reuter's Telegram.* (Received November 29, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 28. Official: In yesterday night's air raid tlie damage and casualties were very slight.
Over one hundred bombs were dropped. A woman died from shock. Five men, seven women, and four children were injured.
Fifteen houses m one town were seriously and twenty slightly damaged. Elsewhere the damage was insignificant.' . There was ho damage of niihtai v importance.
Official : In connection with the air raid, an aeroplane brought down the first airship at' 11.55 p.m. The second did not reach the coast before daybreak, coming at slow speed, which increased after passing the gun fire of the land defences, which claim to have hit it. An aeroplane dropped six bombs ou London. Four people were injured, p woman seriously. The damaee done was light. '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14159, 29 November 1916, Page 3
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142DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES SLIGHT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14159, 29 November 1916, Page 3
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