The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-05
SEA,A|R
RAID ON
ENGLAND
NEW TEUTON DASH
U-BOat BOmbards Unprotected
British Coast City.
German Planes Make Third At
tack in Three Days.
AIRMEN KILL II, WOUND 81
3 Killed, Injured in Naval
Attack on Scarborough.
Brings 3-Day Total in Air Raids
to 119 Dead, 154 Hurt.
SCORE PLANES DROP BOMBS
See kaiser'S Intentions for Air
Invasion of England.
One German AirpIane Felled
While Making Escape.
3 Killed, ) Injured in Naval
Attack on Scarborough.
Brings 3-Day Total in Air Raids
to 119 Dead, 154 Hurt.
SCORE PLANES DROP BOMBS
See Kaiser's Intentions for Air
Invasion of England.
One German AirpIane FeIled
While Making Escape.

London, Sept 5.-A German sub
marine bombarded the British town
of Scarborough list night, Lord
French, commander of home defense
forces. announced today. Three per
sons were killed and five injured. The
material damage to the town was
slight. The submarine fired thirty
rounds in all, half of the smells falling
on land.
Scarborough is the queen of the
British watering places, a summer re-
sort village on a head land extending
into the North sea, 81 miles northeast
of York. So far as known it is an ut
terly unfortified town.
Third Air Raid in Three Days.
London, Sept. 5.-The third German
air raid, on England in the same num-
ber of days caused the death of eleven
persons and the injuring cf sixty-two
in the London district, Lord French,
commander of home defense forces,
announced today. He said one of last
nights raiders was brough down over
Sheerness, presumably as it fled to-
ward Germany The announcement
brings the total number of deaths by
German raiders since Sunday up to
119 killed and "a injured
The air raid over London last night
was participated in by twenty enemy
machines, Lord French stated. They
flew in small groups and dropped
about forty bombs.
Raid Lasted 3 Hours.
The official announcement follows:
Enemy airplanes in considerab BILE
numbers crossed the southeast coast
over a wide area between 1890 p. m.
and 2 a. m. last night. The raiders
seemed to have travelled singly or in
groups of two or three machines
therefore it is difficult to estimate ac-
curately their number. 1t is possible
that 20 machines took part in the
raid
by 11:20 p. M it became evident
that enemy airplanes were approach
ing London and at 11:45 the first
bombs were dropped in the London
district. From then until about 1 a.
m. forty bombs were dropped.
The total casualties reported up
to this time are: Killed: nine; injured
forty nine. The material damage is
not extensive
"One enemy machine is reported to
have been brought down in the sea off
Sheerness."
The air raid of Monday over Chat
ham and Sheerness was the most de-
structive, in the toll of human life.
that England has experienced since
the great day attack on London June
3, when 1877 were killed and 432 in
jured
London, Sept. 5.-The first MOON
light air raid over the London district
occurred about midnight last nigh.
and resulted in the dropping of
bombs but the full extent of the dam
age is yet unknown.
One bomb fell just outside 4 hos
pital, another smashed thru Il the
ater and still another hit retail store
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