RAID ON LONDON.
HUM CRAFT PENETRATES CAPITAL.
LARGE ENEMY MACHINE DESTROYED.
A. and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.
(Received February 18, 11 a.m.) LONDON, February 17. It is officially reported that six aeroplanes approached the mouth of the Thames at 9.45 p.m. last night and carried out an attack on London. All turned back except one, which penetrated to the capital and dropped bombs in the south-west district at ten o’clock, demolishing a house and burying an invalided officer, his wife and two children.
The raider had previously dropped other bombs in the eastern outskirts .but there were no casualties, and the damage was not serious. An attacks on Dover at 10.45 p.m. was driven off. Bombs were dropped in the open country.
Several pilots engaged the. enemy and one action over the Kent coast resulted in a large enemy machine crashing into the sea.
The casualties and damage apparently were light.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19180218.2.24.2
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 12245, 18 February 1918, Page 5
Word Count
152RAID ON LONDON. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12245, 18 February 1918, Page 5
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.