New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-21
Presumptive Evidence
Zeppelin Was in Raid

London. Jan 21-The Yarmouth cor.
RESPONDENT Of The Daily Chronicle
"Was II a Zeppelin or two or three
German aeroplanes that ralded the
cast coast last night | have Just com
Melted 1OO-mile motor tour IN the track
Of the raider or raiders. and ] must
confess that the problem Is incapable
Of solution There IS strong evidence
10 support both contentious. and, OF
course. perhaps there were botn Yep
pcIir and an aeroplane escort. ne
police generally assert officially that
The craft we're aeroplanes. On the
other hand. a Yarmouth police oihcer
declared 20 them that he saw the bomb
dropper and that IL was most certainly
"Tbe tremendous havoc caused by
the bombs which fell on the fish wharf
and near the junction of st. Peter
Plain and the Lancaster road supports
the Zeppelin theory. and still more sig
nifcant is the fact that one OF the
bombs had two propellers. These facts
form strong presumptive evidence that
the missile was not dropped, but dis
CHARGED from an aerial torpedo tube
such as is fitted TO 4 Zeppelin, and the
fact that nearly all agree that the
flashes in the sky preceded the eXplo-
sions would seem to indicate the dis
charge Of the missile rather tnan
merely dropping it on It's errand OF de-
struction.
ION the other hand the damage
done bv the bombs varied enormously
indicating more than one KIND used
and while some people assert the noise
l. 1. 81
fnitely greater than that caused by an
aeroplane. others declare with equa
emphasis the opposite
Ideal Night for Raid.
For the purpose Of the raiders mis-
sion 10 was an ideal night. Scarcely 4
breath Of air was stirring, and. al
tho.ch over Yarmouth itself there
hung mist. I'm most districts the stars
shono brightly from an absolutely
cloudless sky The aerial raider was
first seen At Potter Heigham By a SIG
nal man on the railway Il was then
directing its searchlights on the rail
way. and obviously using the railway
line a. guide 10 Yarmouth. The sig
nal man promptly telephoned 10 Var
mouth that an airshiD was coming. but
as one Of the town officials put II to-
day. "the message scarcely had been
/ received when the Zeppelin was here.
4 The spot where the most damage was
done and where two victims were killed
was close TO the junction Of st. Peter's
Plain and the Lancaster Road. The
bomb fell Just I'M front Of st. Peters
villa. and for fifty yards in every direc-
ton and for about hundred yards i'm
enc direction there was not wlndo"
unrokeu. The whole OF the windows on
one side OF St. Peters Church were
shattered.
For thirty Yards around ST. Peter 3
villa the interior Of every house Is :
wreck. and the exteriors are badly dam
aged. Parts Of the roofs have beer
blown off, the spouting hurled down
the windows or their frames blown on
and the walls pitted with marks Of fly
ing shells.
The second aircraft appeared over
Yarmouth about l2;l5 q. IN. yesterday
but no bombs were dropped by tins
machine. Il is now considered certain
that there were two machines, ant
that the first machine did not come
back again. although there was an in
terval Of four hours. The first ma
chine was noticed to come directly Ove'
NewtoWn between Caster and Var
mouth, thus showing that the pllo
knew exactly where he was gong
Flashlights were observed playing
hither and thither from the machine
over the town. The pilot steered hl'
way over the rifle butts situated OF
North Dons. The waterWorks are nea
the spot where the first bomb VA
dropped.
The second bomb dropped withir