The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
G KILLED, u
INJURED IN RAID
i2Tmdn Bombs Deal Death and
Destruction
PEOPLE PAaiC STRICKEN
England Doubts Whether Giant Yep
pelin Machines Participated In Bonn
bardment.


pelin Machines Participated In Bonn
bardment.
Six persons were killed and twenty
two were injured in the German air
raid over England.
Two of the lead are soldiers, three
are women and one a boy. Thirty-two
houses were destroyed and many 9TH
ers damaged.
NJ of the damage appears TO
have beer inflicted on private houses
and shops; few public buildings or
docks seem to have been injured. The
property damage is estimated at $15,-
900.
The most important towns over
which the German airmen appeared
were Sandringham, Yarmouth, Sher-
ingham, Hunstanton, Cromer, Heach-
am, Dersingham and Kings Lynn. I'm
official dispatches say a Zeppelin also
appeared over Ipswich, in Suffolk
county, seventy-fye miles southwest
of Yarmouth.
Doubt has been expressed in some
quarters whether the raiders came in
Zeppelins or in aeroplanes. In Sher-
ingham and Cromer persons say they
saw the aircraft, and their description
indicates that they were Zeppelins.
At the same time dispatches from
Yarmouth say it is believed there that
the craft used were large aeroplanes.
The small size of the bombs and the
few missiles dropped supports the
theory that they were not Zeppelins,
as those air vessels could carry a
much more formidable cargo of ex-
plosives.
The raiding airmen showed excel
lent ability in plotting their vessels,
as we'll as good craftsmanship. In
spite of the darkness of the night,
they seemed to find their way over
the country with remarkable direct
ness, and the accuracy of their aim
with bombs was greater than gen
orally had been believed possible.
Panic has followed the raid. In
surance rates against damage by Yep
pelins in London are rising. In the
damaged towns the terror which fol-
lowed the attack is undated. A hunt
for German spies was begun, as a re-
suit of reports hat signals had been
flashed to the raiding Zeppelins at
Yarmouth. According to these reports
a signal was given from a house near
the Aquarium theater, in Yarmouth,
just before the attack began.
With a lull in the battle along the
center of the line from Scissors to
Rheims, where the French suffered so
severely last week, the scene of action
has shifted to the two wings of the
war. At both places violent attacks
and counter attacks have been deliv-
cred, and both Berlin and Paris claim
progress.
In the eastern part of France and
along the Mouse the French say that
they have made substantial gains and
that they are now within ten miles
of the outer forts of Metz, the Ger
man stronghold.
In that region the French have
hurled forward large numbers of
troops in an endeavor to isolate the
German forces holding st. Mihiel and
the lines of communication leading to
that position, and late reports from
official sources in Paris say that the
French have captured nearly a third
of a mile of German fortified posi-
tions about three miles from the Ger
mar frontier east of st. Mihiel, the
objective of the French efforts in that
section of the battle zone in France.
This success, as reported from
Paris, is of great Importance, and
marks the progress of a definite stra.
tegic movement to force the Germans
from French soil along the Mouse.
Berlin dispatches say that at Notre
Dame de Lorette, northwest of Ar
ras, the GeGrmans have captured 200
yards of the allies trenches, as well
as two machine guns and a few pris-
oners. At other places in that section
of the battle front artillery exchanges
are taking place.
In Alsace, where the allies were
making progress until checked re-
Gently by the arrival of German rein.
f~orcements, they now apparently are
ON the defensive.