The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-25
For Three Hours Bombs Fell
on Eastern Coasts.
Daring British AviatOrs Went
Up in Wild Pursuit.
THEY ATTACK SHIPS At SEA
Germans We're Unable to Do
Any Damage to Marine.
Three Killed and Several Were
Injured i'm One Town.

LONDON, Aug. 2o."E1ght persons
were killed and thirty-six injured in
the Zeppelin raid last night, it was an
nounced officially today. One hundred
bombs were dropped.
One of the six Zeppelins reached
the outskirts of London and hurled
1 down bombs. slightly damaging an
electric power station, General French,
commander of the home forces, an
nounced this afternoon. Three men.
three women and two children were
killed by the raiders Seven men
eleven women and three children were
wounded.
| London, Aug. 25.-Details of the
raid by hostile airships. which crossed
the east and southeast coasts Of Eng
! land between midnight and 8 o'clock
/ this morning are disclosed by the Off
cial statement of the war office, show
that nine persons are reported to have
! been injured. some mortally. Other
damage effected by the raiders is de-
clared to have been slight. The an
| nouncement states:
Six hostile airships raided the east
and southeast coasts of England last
| night at intervals between midnight
i and 8 o'clock this morning. One air
! ship made her way westward well in
| land. The remainder of the fleet car
ried out short inroads over the coast.
The number of bombs dropped by the
raiders has not yet been ascertained.
Several bombs are reported to have
/ been directed at ships at sea- The
| damage effected was slight
I'm one locality, a railway station
and some houses were damaged and
two horses were killed. At another
point two houses were wrecked.
Aeroplanes in Pursuit.
ITO date nine persons are reported
injured, some fatally.
'Anti-aircraft guns came into action
at certain points both on land and
from ships at sea. Some of our air.
craft went up in pursuit.
Three Killed.
| Three persons were killed and sew
eral injured by a Zeppelin which drop
ped large number of bombs in the
neighborhood of town on the south
east coast of England early today.
says a dispatch to the Exchange TeIe-
! graph company.
Several houses were damaged
At another place on the southeast
coast many bombs were dropped. One
fell into railway station yard and
demolished some railings, while an
other bomb completely wrecked a
dairy
Attack Zeppeiins.
The Zeppelins were violently attack
ed by anti-aircraft guns and by a Brit
ish aviator who dashed in at close
| range, despite the ZeppennS' IRE, and
turned his machine gun loose upon a
dirigible. The Zeppelin escaped by
mounting high into the clouds where
the pursuing aeroplane was unable to
follow her because of the heavy
mists.
| Were Near London.
] London, Aug. 25.-There was great
! excitement in a town on the Thames
estuary at 1 o'clock this morning
when news was received of the ap-
proach Of a Zeppelin. Mist obscured
the raider, but it could be heard ap-
preaching from the coast. After how
ering over the town for some time it
passed toward the west. Shortly
afterward a series of violent explo-
sions, followed by cannonading, shook
| buildings and lighted the sky The
people thronged the streets, calmly
watching the operations. which lasted
half an hour.
Tho dispatch indicates that Zep-
pelins which visited England last night
may have appeared in the vicinity of
London, which is on the Thames,
sixty miles from it's mouth. The
course of the airship referred to was
in the direction of London.