The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-20
FOUR AEROS RAID
ENGLAND; ONE LOST
German Seaplancs Traverse
Coast From Dover tO
Margate.
9 KILLED.: ~ WOUNDED
Special Gable Despotch to Tnt S,>.

Specidt tdbfS DespufCh TO THt StN.
LoNpoN. March l9.-Ninc persons
were killed and thir,y-one injured to-
day by bombs dropped by four German
searlanes which raidcd the coast from
Dover to Marga,e.
one OF the raiding machines was
brought down. the first of the new type
of German planes to suffer ;his fate.
Ii was forced to descend into the sea.
after having been pursued thirty miles
from shore and engaged for fifteen min
utes by a British aviator in one
seated aeroplan.. The observer of the
German machine was Killed
The four planes dropped altogether
4ss bombs.
The official statement said:
Four German seaplanes bombarded
cas-, Kent to-day. The first pair APP
peared over Dover. flying at a height
OF between 5000 to 5000 feet. One
machine dropped six bombs on the
harbor and then went northwest.
throwing bombs on the town. The
other. after passing over Dover. APP
peared over Deal and dropped several
bombs.
A second pair bonbarded Rams
I
north, pursued by Il British aeroplane.
| one machine dropped bombs OH Mar
gate. second appeared over West
| gate, where our aeroplanes pursued
| II. No bombs were dropped
| The casualties SO far are nine
killed and thirty-one injured As far
as can be ascertained ass bombs were
] dropped. one bomb fell on the Ca
madam hospital 1T Ransgate. causing
damage but no casualties. Material
! damage was done to several houses
Flight Commander Bone. in a single
seated aeroplane. pursued one of the
raiding aeroplanes for thirty miles
over the sea, where after AN action
| lasting "A quarter OF an hour the
| raider WAS forced to descend. The
observer was killed
The coast sector visited By IN. raid
! ers stretches about twenty miles fron
Dover northward to Margate. Bomb
were dropped first upon Dover harbor
then on the town, whereupon the raiders
travelling in two pairs. bombarded Deal
nine miles. Ramsgate. sixteen miles. an,
Margate, nineteen miles north Of IN
British Channel port. one Of the ma
chimes visiting Westgatc. Il few mile
west Of Marga:e hut dropping no bombs
All OF the places raidcd are popua
English watering places IN time OF peac.
To-day's raid affected the smnlcs
radius bomharded by German planes -
Zcppelins since the war h-gau
one bomb fell upon the Cin,dian hos
p.tal at Ramsgate. causing damage. bu
no casualties. The statement admit
that material damage w.s done by TIA
raiders at several places, but does no
speak OF military damage. The abstn ne.
however, OF the assertion that no sue
damage was done, statement whic
has marked all previous official bulletin:
Is taken to indicate that the raiders ma
have had some success In this respect.
Orphanaxe hit by Bomb.
Dispatches from the Kentish coas
towns received here tonight give som
details Of the raid. One Of a dozen q
bombs dropped on the town OF Dove
hit an orphanagc and did much damag'
An attendant was hurt. All Of the chil
dren sought refuge in the basement an
escaped injury.
Another building was wrecked. muc
glass being shattered, Many bombs fr
into the streets and gardens. The mum
ber Of deaths in Dover were four q
five. British airm-n assembled Gui"kl
and sharp firing followed. One raid.
in hurrying away dropped four bolnl
into the sea.
Inc Only at l'fsii WtS tlitl '
a chicken, Nut much damage was don
to residences. An autOmObilst left W
car to take shelter and had hardly fie
when "A bomb dropped on its seat.
Ten bombs were dropped on Ram.
gate. The chief damage here was dor
to a number of workmen's cottage
which we're wrecked. Most OF the vi,
tins were children going to Sunda
school. Four OF them were killed. anon
them a brother and sister. aged 4 and
respectively. Several were wounded
All bombs thrown by the raiders WEI
explosive. No fires resulted from II
raid, however. A bomb dropped on Ma
gate struck a residence, damaging
slightly. No one was injured.