The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-30
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Felixstowe am Sther points over
which the Gerr sZeppeIin passed lasl
night, receive. day, show that very
little damage resulted. As In the
case Of all previous visitations, no at
tempt apparently was made to do any
damage to fortified positions.
The German aircraft was aided by
Ia dense fog which covered the coast
It passed in from the sea at FeIixstowe
at midnight and proceeded to Ipswich,
where two explosive and five incend
larry bombs were dropped on Brook.
shall road, a residence section. Five
houses we're destroyed by fire here
One bomb fell in the bedroom occupied
by Harry Goodwin, wife and daughter
twelve years old. The girls bed was
set on fire but the father rescued her
Scores Of people fed to tho streets in
their right clothing. The throb OF
tie powerful engines Of the aircraft
could distinctly be heard.
The Zeppelin then proceeded to
Wilton. where several bombs like
wise were dropped. Soon after 1:cc
o'clock, It was sighted over Bury St
Edmonds, where twelve bombs were
dropped. Two were lnccndiary ans
set fire to stable and buildings IN
the vicinity Of the Suffolk hotel. St
Andrews Hall and other buildings
nearby were destroyed. Some Of the
bombs fell In the residential section
One man rushed out into the road and
extinguished the fuse of bomb with
a pail Of water. The Zeppelin finally
disappeared In the direction of the
sea.
One Of the clearest stories told was
by w. T. Easty, Of SO BrookshalI Road
Ipswich, who said: 81 was aWakene !
by buzz and almost imre diateiy
heard an explosion. All Of the win
dows Of my house were shattered an1
the building set on fire. ! rushed int:
the street, taking my wife with me.
could see the airshlp above the city
1 went back then and carried cut s1iy
young son. BY that time the entre
building was on fire. The bomb dc
strcyed the back Of 1t and made bic
hole in the ground"
There was neck and neck race
between the Zeppelin and train, the
crew of the aircraft trying to drop
bombs upon the train. Five were
thrown, but all went wide.
TWO MORE SHIPS SUNK.
LONDON. April 3o.-The British
collier Mobile and the traWler Lily.
dale have been sunk by submarines
in the Notrh sea. The LiIydaie was
torpedoed off Tyne. Her crew was
saved. The Mobile was torPedoed
while off Lewis Island. The crew
was civen ten minutes In which to
take to the boats. They finally ar
rived at carloway, after nine hours
in the boat.
CAPTURED A GERMAN.
LONDON, priI 3o.-The admiralty
today announced that the German
steamer Macedonia, which escaped
from, Las PaImas some time ago, has
been captured by Births warship.
The British Army. ..,.
[Ry VIM. G. Shepherd, United Press
Staff Correspondent ~
TCopyright 1915 by The United Press
TCopyright in Great Britainl
HEADQUARTERS OF THE BRIT
ISH ARMY, NORTHERN FRANCE,
April IS (by mail to New York;
This is not Tommy Atkins; it's John
Bull.
The minute you begin to rub ell
bows with the English army, you
make this discovery. .- ..s
Tommy Atkins. the professional
English soldier. is here aplenty; he
dots the English army. John Bull is
the everyday English citizen and he
seems to be around here in hundreds
of thousands. Tommy Atkins is the
soldier that Kipling sings about.
John Bull has never been sung
about. " ....
Take any one of your younger
lawyer a street car
a real estate man, clerk,
quiet fellows who stay at home on
summer evenings and squirt the
lawn or weed the gardens, and III
go out on the streets of his head
quarters town and md his counter
part for you within five minutes.
He's carrying a gun and wearing
khaki. Or I'll find him for you lying
under a wooden cross in one OF the