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1916 - 0366.PDF
IfilGHf] According to an Exchange message from the Piraeus, the raider dropped four tombs on the Zeppelin shed at Sofia. An aeroplane belonging to the Allies has flown over Constanti nople and dropped shps of paper announcing the fall of Trebizond, the death of Marshal von der Goltz, and the arrival of the Russians at Marseilles. AMIL 27, 1916. A report from Ameland states that seven airships passed north of Ameland on Monday afternoon, going west. Some torpedo-boats also passed, going in the same direction. A message received at Oosterend, on the island of Texel fron Vlieland, also records Jthat nine Zeppelins passed westwards on M onday. ® ® ® ® MORE RAID FICTION. THB following "official version" of the series of Zeppelin Raids from March 31st to April 6th has been supplied to the German press. Despite its graphic description, it in no wise differs from similar German propaganda unless it is in the sudden modesty of the final sentence admitting that the damage to warships has not been verified :— " The attack on the London Docks during the night of March 31*1 April 1st far surpassed all earlier attacks in severity and effectiveness. In the north-eastem quarter of the town numerous fires were started, and serious damage was done. The district round Great Eastern Street and Great Tower Street suffered particularly heavily. In this neighbourhood a factory was also burned down. " Near the Tower Bridge and London Bridge several bombs fell on a transport steamer and severely damaged it. " At Holland Park several huts and aeroplane sheds, as well as largs camps, were hit. Several soldiers were killed here and various aircraft were destroyed. " The London Docks and St. Catherine Docks suffered severely by the considerable havoc wrought in the adjacent workshops. About 350 workmen were unable to resume work the day after the airship attack, in consequence of the destruction of the works. Four armed merchantmen were also hit here. "At the West Indian Docks several anti-aircraft guns were silenced, and in the Commercial Docks several warehouses and various small craft were destroyed. The railway was also seriously damaged, and much storage space was destroyed. " Near the Tilbury Docks a warehouse was burned down and several anti-ai'craft guns were damaged. " At Pur fleet a munition factory was hit and destroyed. "At various places at the mouth of the 11 umber great fires were started. Near Grimsby we succeeded in destroying a barracks and in hitting a battery. In Grimsby itself widespread destruction was caused. The gasworks, the electric light works, and the suburban railway station suffered seriously. Outside Grimsby one munition factory was destroyed and another was severely damaged. " Not less heavy is the damage done at the Sunderland Docks. Here in particular the shipbuilding yards of the firm of Swan, Swighart sit), and Richardson suffered. A ship lying on the stocks fell over, and a cruiser which was ready to be launched was severely damaged. Several ships at the quays were damaged. " Outside Sunderland several munition factories and sheds con taining stores were completely destroyed. " At Middlesbrough two large furnaces and extensive industrial works weie successfully covered with bombs. " In Edinburgh and Leith, too, the damage is veiy great. Bar racks, munitions depots, ironworks, and other factories lie in ruins. Two munition works broke out in flames and were destroyed. The large spirit factory was hit by incendiary bombs and was burned to the ground. The railway station was also materially damaged. A train with material was destroyed. In the port several ships were hit; one English four-masted ship was almost completely destroyed, and a transport steamer with war material was so badly damaged that it could not start on its voyage. " Not less was the damage suffered by places at the mouth of the Tyne. At Haxham a munition factory was destroyed, imi at Newcastle a bomb hit the Tyne Bridge. "Many yards and quays on both banks of the Tyne were hit. In the shipyards at Halborn and Gateshead a whole series of factories and slips have been put out of action. " Above Newcastle the munition works at Ryton were destroyed. " According to various reports, new ships under construction for the British Navy were also hit, but about this it is, of course, difficult to ascertain details." ® ® ® ® LIGHTER THAN AIR. " Life ia a mirror smile at it and it will smile back; frown at it and it will frown again." THE Daily Mail, piling up the agony upon its wretched readers, announces that the Germans are now " batching Zeppelins at the rate of two a week." I believe it is not correct to speak of them as being hatched. The Count blows them with a pipe and a bowl of soap-suds. When he is in good form he sometimes turns out a dozen in a couple of hours.—Truth. I t t IT is announced that the care of the great vine at Hampton Couit has been taken over by the Office of Works from the Board of Green Cloth. It is rumoured that the latter body, which has been of late somewhat lost sight of, is to be entrusted with the general supervision of our aerial forces. I I i FOR- shouting "The Zepps. are coming!" a Grimsby girl has been fined £1. It was urged in defence that the girl suffered from hallucinations, one of which was that she was a daily newspaper proprietor. i ! ! "IN twenty years' time," says Mr. Pembsrton Billing, "the aeroplane will bring abojt universal peace." This statement will come as a distinct shock to many who imagined that with Mr. Billing at Westminster it might be expected to achieve this desirable result in about twenty days.—Chattvaria (Punch). I t t NORAH, ftesh from old Ireland, stared at the baby's toy balloon, which wavered at a place two or three feet higher than her bead, and was anchored to the back of a chair. "'Tis quare and wonderful entirely !" she said, raising her hands, "to see it up and balancin' its own self—and it standing on a string 1 " It! FOR over an hour the Zeppelin remained stationer)'-—Daily Dispatch. Probably on account of its envelope.—"Whipped Topics." 366 Fire Fighting in New York, 1920.—Aerial Age.
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