THE GERMAN RAIDERS
SIX AIRSHIPS PARTICIPATE^! RAILWAY STATION DAMAGED. II 'ff| (High Commissioner's Cable.) i-J LONDON, 11.55 a.m., Friday. Official: Last night's raid was carried A 5 out by six airships. The number of J bomlj|s di'oppcd is uncertain. Several tvere directed at ships at sea, Jf but tJie damage was slight. > In one locality a railway several houses were damaged and tVQ.O horses killed. In another two houses were wrecked. •$! Ihe total casualties are not : yet reported. n Our anti-aircraft guns acted, and our aircraft pursued one aeroplane, shoot- i ing at the raider at close range, but she eluded her pursuers among the clouds.
THE CASUALTIES.
Kir.UT KILLED, 21 JXJLRED
'High Commissioner's Cable). LONDON, 5 p.m. Friday. Tiie official report says that in the last air raid tin' civilian casualties were eight killed and 21 injured.
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Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13269, 26 August 1916, Page 5
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