The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-22
AIR RAID lMPERILS
 BANK OF ENGLAND
zGppGIInS, Lod by Autos, G0i
 Near Heart Of London.
HIT NOTED EAST END CHURCH

Airships Only Few Minutes From St.
 PauPs Cathedral, Houses of Parlia- ment, Westminster Abbey and Kings Palace-Ninety Bombs Kill Four, In jure Seventy and Cause Many Fires.
 By mail have come details of the at tack on London by German Zeppelins, particulars of which the British censor would not allow to be published iu England or cabled to this country
 In all it would appear ninety bombs were dropped, apparently by airships, which it is believed, were guided by spies in automobiles specially. lighted. The raiders got within mile of the Bank of England and St paul's cathe- dral and three miles of Westminster Abbey, Buckingham palace and the houses of parliament. They hit church, a crowded theater, killed four persons, wounded seventy and set few fires, but are thought to have proved that raids on London may be successful yet.
 First Bombs at 10.3o P. M.
 The German air raiders apparently reached land at Lcigh-on- Sea. which is two miles from S0uthpnd. There they dropped five bombs about 10:30 D. m., but did little damage, as the explo- sivcs fell on the open downs near the town. They were next reported over Brentwood and from that town easily reached north London, only a few min utes' flight away. Stratford, which is well within the metropolis, was the subject of their attentions, but little property damage was done there, the bombs falling on waste land.
 The raiders then continued their flight until they were over Dalston junction, very important railway junction with a heavy night traffic of freight trains which necessitates many signal lights Near the junction there is a marsh which marks the site of natural springs known from the days of the Romans, and instead of strik- ing the railway lines most of the bombs fell in the marsh
 SWiugiu- morc to the east. the raid CTS scattered bombs over Shoreditch. which is ou the edge of the city of London, and it was here that they ac compi~hcd the greatest damage to life and property. setting fire to several private residences and shops and l,in ing four persons and iujur.ng many others
 Crowded Theater Is Hit.
 Au mcpudiary bomb bouurel from tuc roof o. flc Shorc1itch Empire Mn sic halI leaving the place virtually m scathcd hut causing a panic in the thcator aud,cnoe \ small house stand ing near thc thcater was burned. ap parently hy the bomb which bounded from tn, roof The most important structure hit was the ancient Church of St. Mary. Whitc.hape. right in the heart of thc throu4eI Ea-i End The spjre was silently cracked by an m coudaIy bomb
 Through IoNlou the Zi@2a- course Of tle Icppein~ could De- traced hy se- Iios of fires which they left in their track Along ComWercial road many business houses suffered Due of fine hcGja+t escarce wa, tAat of 92 Nhissy ai,iuery With its great vatS cG spirits and i5~ -loreruoms flied with case eo.d~ it might have proved an easy victim for au iucondiary bomb. but thc lone bomb which struck the place wen, through galvanized iron roof into a deep tank filed with water
 Most of the bombs used were of the iuccndiary type and few which dii not explode have been examined by the British authorities These are fill ed with tarreI hemp soaked in coal oil But evidence has been found showing that some of the shrapne bombs of the type carried by aero planes were used
 Three Fall on Freight Depot.
 Thrr, incendiary bombs were drop ped in the big freight station of the Great Eastern railway at Bishopsgate about half past H. They came through the glass roof without shattering the glass, but cutting holes as smooth as if made with a glass cutter. Two of them started fires, which the Workmen put out with buckets of water The third was thrown into a pail of water before it had done any damage and taken to the police station as an ex- hibit
 The inhabitants of the poorer regions where the bombs fell were in an ugly