The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-04-03
zEPPEL|NS KILL
5 6 IN H R EE
NIGHT RAIDS
Last Flight Of Airships Was Over
Scottish Coast
ONE DIRIGlDlE DESTROYED
Fell Victim to Bombs Dropped from
Great Height by British
Aviator.

London, April 2-Three Zeppelin
raids have been made on England
within the last forty-eight hours, The
third of these was made tonight, the
alrships visiting the Scottish coast
and the northeastern and southeast
ern counties Of England. Details of
this latest raid have not been received
and there is little information regard
ing casualties
Sixteen persons are known to have
been killed and a hundred injured by
bombs dropped by Zeppelin in the
northeastern counties last night. II
evidently had been planned for two
Zeppelins to take part in this raid.
Two machines were seen approaching
the coast, but cnly one crossed the
coast line, the other retreating over
the sea
The localities raided by the single
Zeppelin which remained have not
been announced by the war Office,
which says the bombs caused a SER
ious fire without mentioning the name
of the town Eight houses also were
demolished by bombs.
In Saturday nights raid the Yep
pelin dropped couple of bombs on
each of several villages before it at
tackled the northeast coast town where
fourteen explosive shells and seven
jncendiary bombs were dropped, six
teen persons were killed, twenty-five
were seriously injured and eighty
slightly injured
Numerous stories received in Lon
don of Fridays raid repeat the past ex
periences of death, mutilation and de-
struetion of towns visited by Yep
pelins in earlier raids.
Compilation OF more complete list
of the casualties today shows forty
three killed and sixty-siX wounded
The earlier partial figures. given out
Yesterday, were twenty-eight killed
and forty-four injured.
One of the British aviators who
went up to meet the Zeppelins Friday
night engaged in fight with one Of
the invading dirigibles at an altitude
OF 5000 feet. dropping bombs on it
which he believed took effect. His
own aeroplane was hit in the engage
ment by bullets from the machine
guns OF the Zeppelin.
Lieutenant Branden was the aviator
engaged in this fight When he was
| at an altitude of 5000 feet he caught
sight OF Zeppelin. 5000 feet above
him He sent his machine above the
big dirigible and began dropping
bombs. Losing his place of vantage
above the German machine at one
| time in the fight he regained it and
| dropped two more bombs, this time on
| the nose of the Zeppelin
What became of this Zeppelin after
the fight is not known, but 1t is sug
| gested by the war Office as a possi
bility that It may have been the dirig
| ible which dropped machine gun, am
| munition, a petrol tank riddled with
| shrapnel bullets and some machinery
IN the estuary, as was reported yester
day.
The German official statement an
nounces that London was attacked ii
the raid, which, according to this yer
sion, had for its objective London ant
the south coast.
A detailed list of the points attacked
is given in the Berlin statement. Ac
cording to this list, bombs were free
ly' dropped on the city of London be
tween the Tower bridge and the Lon
don docks, on military camps in thu
northwestern part of the city, on fac
tories at Enfield and munition works
at Waltham Abbey. These two towns
are to the north of London.
1t was officially stated in London to
day that the German account of th
raid was absolutely false" except TO
the admission which it contains of tn
destruction of the Zeppelin LIS.