Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-01
More Than Sixty Persons In
jured, According to Re-.
port From Capital.
BIG FLEET OF ZEPPELlNS
DID NOT VISIT LONDON
Belief Expressed That Attack Was
Aimed at Destroying Num-
tions Plant.

LONDON, February I,
$50 p.m.-Fifty-four per-
sons were killed and sixty
seven injured in last nights
Zeppelin raid.
The figures in regard to
. the casualties were con-
tanned in an official state
ment issued here this after
noon.
The official statement says
bombs were dropped at sew
eral towns and in rural dis
tricts of Derbyshire, Leices-
tershire, Lincolnshire and
Staffordshire.
Some damage to property
was caused.
NEW YORK. February l.
The following dispatch from Lon
don received by the Tribune this
morning is believed to- refer to
yesterdays Zeppelin raid, details
of which had been withheld by
the British censor:
Eleven deaths reported Eng
land yesterday due lightning
Qighting?) restrictions. Five OF
tragedies occurred London streets,
three of victims soldiers"
Details Are Withheld.
LONDON. February 1.-The press
comments at length upon the Zeppelin
raid Of last night. but no official de-
tails have been made public, in addi-
tion to the war ONCE statement to the
effect that six or seven airships passed
over the EASTERN northeastern and
midland counties Of England, dropping
number of bombs. At the time the
announcement was made GAS o'clock
this morning) it was said no consider
able damage had been reported.
The Westminster Gazette says:
The airships avoided London on this
occasion, and SO did not test those de-
fenses about which there has been SO
much controversy. They passed over
a large area in the eastern and midland
counties, seemingly without doing a
great deal of damage.
30 Awaits German Excuse.
I'VE shall await the German excuse for
the raid with very considerable interest.
The comfortable German theory Is that
all frightfulness in the air is simply
punishment for wrong done to innocent
German villages. and the pretense is
kept up with amazing solemnity long
after it becomes transparently ridicu-
lous.''
The Manchester Guardian says that
city was a center of discussion Of the
Zeppelins last night.
Aimed at Munitions Plants.
The London Globe says it would ap-
pear that the ostensible object Of last
nights raid was an attack upon certain
factories. and adds
THE moral of the raid seems to be
that unless Seppelins make for some
quarter where special preparations
have been undertaken we have practi-
caliy no defense against Them
The Standard maintains that de-
fenses against aircraft have been i'm
proved greatly, particularly around
London.
Most papers agree in urging re-
prisals, but the Manchester Guardian
that the responsibility rests
on the admiralty to devise means of
of the approach of aircraft be-
fore they reach the coast.
London Theaters Suffered.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: Lon
doners instinctively knew that a raid
was going on last night and the the
aters suffered by the return of a num-
ber of tickets, though no sounds came
within London's listening ears"
The Evening News points out that
last night raid was the largest which
has yet occurred. SO far as the number
Of Zeppelins is concerned.
The News and the Evening Standard
the meager official account of
he English raid, which failed to desig-
ais which were cabled from Paris fol-
owing the Zeppelin raids Saturday and
Sunday night
BY direction of the naval and military
authorities, the police today ordered dis
OF chimes and the striking
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