Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-01-20
Belief Increases That Zep-
peIinS Nav Not Have
Ta-.vn Part.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED
AND SEVERAL WOUNDED
Airmen Circled Unmolested
Over Six English Towns for
Four Hours.
ACCURATE MARKSMANSHIP
is SHOWN BY GERMANS
Towns Bonbarded Only Little
More Than 100 Miles
from London.

from London.
A German airship raid on English
east coast towns last night resulted
in at least five deaths, the injury OF
several persons and considerable
damage to property. So far as is
known, the Germans who performed
this spectacular feat escaped un-
scathed. Earlier reports that one
Zeppelin was brought down have not
neen borne out. It has not yet been
established whether aeroplanes or
zeppelins were employed by the
raiders.
AT Yarmouth, which is the largest
Of the towns visited by the aircraft,
the police today issued a positive
statement that the raiders were aero
planes. 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 much more formidable
cargo Of explosives
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 20.-German airmen
delivered their long predicted attack
on England last night. From a base
presumably in Germany they flew
over the North sea to the eastern
coast of England, where for nearly
four hours, from 500 p. nj. until about
midnight, they circled over group
Of some six English towns or1y a
little more than 100 miles from Lon
don, apparently dropping bombs at
will
So far as has been learned today,
i've persons were killed by these mis-
siles and about as many more were
wounded.
Whether these airships were Zeppe-
I'm dirigible balloons or aeroplanes
has not yet definitely been estab-
lished. There is increasing belief in
London this morning that possibly
Only aerop.anes took part in the at
tack. There has been no news SO far
today to confirm the report current
last night that Zeppelin had been
brought down on the English coast.
On the contrary, 1t now appears as
though the German raiders have re-
turned whence they car1e
Private Houses Suffer Most,
The most important towns over
which the German airHen appeared
were Sandringhan, Yarmouth, Sher-
,ngham, Hunstanton. Croner, Heach-
am, Dersingham and Kings Lynn.
King George had left Sandringham
only a few hours before the Germans
visited it,
Most of the damage appears to
have been inflicted upon private
houses and shops; few public build
ings or docks seem to have been in
jured.
The raiding airn1en showed excel
lent ability to pilot their vessels. as
Well as good Workmanship. in spite
OF the darkness of the night they
seemed to find their way over the
country with remarkab BILE directness
and the accuracy Of their aim with
bombs was greater than generally
had been believed possible.
Among those killed is one soldier
The property damage does not exceed
few thousand dollars. A shoe.
maker and a woman were killed al
Yarmouth, and civilian and the
soldier lost their lives at Kings Lynn
The police reports from the towns
upon which bombs were thrown say
that the public responded very well
to the raid instructions recently mad.
public. For the most part the peo-
pie took refuge in their cellars. Sew.
eral theatres were emptied quietly.
An unexploded bomb found in Var
mouth weighed six pounds and is
cone-shaped.
by the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 20, $3.50 a. rn.-The
approximate times of the visit of hos
tile airships to the several towns II
Norfolk are as follows:
Yarmouth, 500 p. M; Cromer, $3.50
Sheringham, $40; Hunstanton, TO-
Heacham, 1920; Dersingham, 10:4o
and Kings Lynn, II.
By the Associated Press.
YARMOUTH, Jan. 20, &. m, vis
London, $50 a. m.-Careful Inquire.