Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-02
864 HAVE BEEN KILLED
SINCE AIR RAIDS ~.
WERE OPENED !;
FLY IN BATTAL|ONS
LAST NIGHTS RAID CAREFULLY
PLANNED AND EXECUTED WITH
NEATNESS OF WELL ORGANIC.
Ed ATTACK BY FLYING SQUAD.
RoNS.

London Oct 2-Ten persons were
killed in the German air raid last
night, it was officially announced to.
day by Viscount French. commander
in chief of the home defenses.
This brings the total number of Der.
sons killed on British soil from Ger
man air raiders up to S64. aai
In addition to the 10 killed 38 9th.
ers were wounded In the areas bonn.
bombarded by the great feet Of Ger.
man aeroplanes Monday night.
Although there was savage fighting
high In the clouds between British
machines and the German planes al
OF the British air craft returned safely.
London Oct. 2.--German air fright.
fulness has reached its most acute
stage.
In last nights raid over London and
the southeastern counties more than
twenty great German machines OF tho
Gotha type, took part, 1t was estl.
mated today, and considerable damage
was done not only by the bombs drop.
ped from the aeroplane. but by the
rain OF shrapnel from the high-angI6
guns which fell back back upon the
city.
| The people of London had been
warned in advance TO expect an st-
tack and only the bolder souls were
in exposed positions when the alarm
was sounded and the thunder OF the
barrage fire from the high.angle guns
began to sound at sunset
The German airmen evidently had
hoped to lead Londoners into danger
by attacking in squadron formation
with intervals in between the bonn
bardments, but in this they were
foiled.
Not all of the attacking airplanes
were able to get as far as London, SO
vigorous was the defense put up by
the British patrols and so violent was
the curtain fire from the antiair craft
cannon.
However some of the machines in
the first squadron succeeded in bonn.
harding the southwestern part OF the
city, in which the finest residences
are located Some projectiles were
hn
skirts. While many windows were
smashed and great holes torn in the
streets by the bursting aerial torpe-
does, no damage of military import.
ane was done.
Savage fighting, in which the spurt.
ing fire from the machine guns could
be seen high in the clouds, gave the
! spectators one of the most thrilling
scenes they have witnessed since the
Germans began attacking London
The German bombing machines were
accompanied by speedy battleplanes
which engaged the British machines
while the bomb droppers were at
work.
The fire from the high.angle guns
was the hottest ever known and for
hours the thunder Of these guns
echoed between London and the coast
while the sky was lighted up by the
shafts of light from numerous search
lights and the lurid glare of bursting
shrapnel
The Germans used shrapnel pro-
jectiles as well as torpedoes. these
being less useful for the destruction
of property but better adapted for
killing purposes. Incendiary shells
were thrown down also
The latest raid--the sixth In eight
days-renewed on a vigorous scale
the demands of the press for repr's-
ais and it is expected the matter will
be brought up in Commons when par
lament convenes on Oct. 16,
The German machines which took
part evidently came from base In
Belgium. II they hew from Ostend
the attack entaied nonstop flight
of more than 300 miles. If from Zee.
brugge. nonstop flight of $50 miles.
Flanders Fight In Last Phase.
London, Oct 2--The battle OF
Flanders--for as such will history
probably know Field Marshal Haig's
great offensive against the Germans
in Belgium--is approaching It's final
phase
News came today Of another yigan'
tie bombardmcnt which the British
have opened against the German po-
sitions all the way from the North
Sea to the French frontier. This can.
nonade covers a wider front than any
o,hn, that hos nrapadad nm Infantry