The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-09
AEROPL LANES TO DECIDE. WAR, IS
 CRY OF BRITISH
Strong Demand In London for Huge Output of
 Machines

London, JlIfy sS.-Iu0y a1 >~-.. ! planes carried out a raid Saturday night on the Ghdste1les Afrdrorne. Fac- cordtne to official announcement py the Admiralty yestreday. Although heavily attacked by German 1or1na- ton. bombs were successfully dropped on obtectives and all the British ma chimes returned safely. An intensified demand tor repr1sais has followed the air raid of Satur- day. All the Sunday newspapers de- clare the people of London are fur1- ous at the inadequacy of the city de- fense as it was revealed Saturday. The Sunday Times says the crying need of 1917 is for airplanes. as It was for shells in 1915, and declares the government must be compelled to re- alize that the airplane will be the u- innate arhd deciding factor of the war It insists that thousands must be built with the help of America to carry the war into enemy territory. The Weekly Despatch contends that the people are in the ugliest temper and no longer in a mood to endure official obstinacy. ReynoIds's newspaper suggests It would have been well if members Of the war Cabinet and the government had gone among the people and heard their comments on the defenseless state of the capital It adds:
 'sThe man who would attempt to justify yesterdays defensive opera tione by the requirements of the army in France could rejoice if the crowds left him ,lnhayed.
 Every Londoner recognizes that yesterday raid was one of deliberate murder and terrorism. The man in the streets wants policy of reprisals on Rhenish towns put into effect inn lmediately.'
 Amsterdam, July a.-Tne Handels- blad reports that five persons were killed and several houses were de- stroyed during the bombardment of the German city of Essen, home of the great Krupp works, on FrDday might
 A correspondent of the Telegraaf says bombs were dropped on the Krupp works and that reports of dann- age inflicted are conflicting. Estimates of the number of attackers vary be- itween Is and 40. eThe official French statement of Saturday night said one l French airplane raided Essen, drop |ping bombs on the Krupp factory.) | A semi official German statement I recelVeQ n6K0 IIOIll lAuSHStSA, vsO0@- phalia, says:
 Enemy airpIanes visited the in- 1 dustrial districts dropping eight l bombs and causing damage to the extent of 1000 marks ($500). Nc 1 industrial works were hit and there 1 were no casualties"
 One German airplanes was lost 1T
 yesterdays raid on London, and g I British plane was shot down over the
 city, it is announced officially in Der. lin-
 The announcement also says ne
 military damage was done by tht aerial attacks on Friday night or
 German towns.
 I The statement follows:
 "On Friday night inN addition tt l bomb dropping near the front, ther. were encounters in German territory
 Enemy aviators dropped more thai 100 incendiary bombs in the West l phalian industrial region on Treve Il and the neighborhood, and also ol
 Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Roda1
 ben No military damage was caus ed. One enemy ,irp1ane fell into ou hands.
 "On the morning of July ' one o Il our aviation squadrons attacked Lon don At Il o'clock in the morninl
 bombs were dropped freely on docks I harbor works and warehouses on tn Thames. Fire and explosions wer
 observed. One British airplane wa shot down over London.
 Bombs were dropped at Margate
 on the east coast of England. Gu airplanes all returned except one which was compelled to make a de
 scent to the sea and could not b : saved by our naval forces. \ ''In aeriai encounters at the iron
 and by anti-aircraft fire the enem yesterday lost nine airp1anes.'' II According to the official British yer
 siof of the London raid, three Ger
 man airplanes were brought dow
 at sea on their return trip. N mention was made of the loss of
 British machine.