The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-19

raid of history apparently has been
at the same time the greatest failure.
Previous raids on England carried out
by two or even one airship have exact
/ ed a far more severe toll Of life and
wrought tremendous damage as COM
pared with what was done by the fleet
of Is Zeppelins which came to Lon
don early one morning recently, while,
on the other hand, for the second time
in the history of the present war two
of the mighty Zeppelins were actually
brought down and one was destroyed.
On one other occasion a Zeppelin
was forced to come down and was lost
in the Thames, but this time the air.
ships actually met their finish through
the good work of the British Flying
the most thrilling battle in the air
which has ever occurred.
The real story of the raid and the
battle in the air cannot be told, at
least for the present, and all attempts
to describe what happened during the
night must be limited to the accounts
which are sanctioned for publication
by the official press bureau.
What the Airships Did.
The sum total of casualties and dam
age caused by the Ii Zeppelins is as
follows:
Killed-Thirty persons.
Injured-AbOut 100 persons.
Twenty-Five houses and some out
buildings slightly damaged in the Met
ropolitan police area.
Two water mains cut.
A number of cottages and a church
damaged in other areas.
A fire at some gas works.
Remarkable scenes were witnessed
in London while the antiaircraft guns
were blazing away at the raiders.
From the roof of the Savoy hotel, the
correspondent obtained perfect view
of the airships brought down. They
presented wonderful sight, caught in
the glare o. more than a dozen search
lights. Illuminating them from every
angle. The light flashed as a signal
by the victorious airman was plainly
above the destroyed raider
and q minute later flames were seen
TO burst forth from the huge airShip.
while shells were bursting all around it.
The giant machine, now only a mass
of flames, fell rapidly, meteorlike, to
the ground, but so great was it's height
at the time when it met it's doom that
it's fall seemed slow.
Gen. Sir Sam Hughes, Canadian min
lister of militia, was among the first to
inspect the wreckage. The airship
came to earth with such force that
much of the machinery, including the
engines, each of which weighs quar-
ter of ton, was deeply buried in the
earth. The work of digging these val
liable parts Of the debris out proceed
ed until dusk.
AS each piece of machinery was re- i.
covered It was carefully inspected and
in Il large number of cases photo |
Sraphed from different angles by q |
special staff of official photographers. |
Afterward it was carefully placed in
one of the motor lorries for removal. |
Saw the Raiders.
The arrival of the German raiders !
over the suburbs of London is related |
as follows by one who saw the de-
struction Of the airship from one of |
LAAC heights VI ouIIlCJS "AACAC IAC AoANCA
came to grief.
"SOme time after midnight the ST. |
ence was bitten into by the deep boom |
Of guns. Occasionally the maze of mist |
was pierced by gun flashes. The boom |
Of the guns found an answering echo |
along the hills and valleys in the dis |
lance. For a time nothing could be |
seen to Justify the unwonted activity. |
Gradually our ears caught the sound
IF q dull droning noise overhead. 1t |
came nearer, getting louder and loud
er, until it resembled the roar of a fast
travelling train.
81 swept the skies with my glasses.
The outline of an airship was family