Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-08
GERMANS, FLYING.
/ AT Low AL T|TUD,..
| DROP MANY BOMBS s.
Thirty Seven Persons Az.
Killed and III Are 81, |:
Injured. ,isG|gg'5
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
SEE REMARKABLE SlGHr
English Aviators Ascend and En-.
gage Enemy Machines, Then
Follow Them to Sea. s 60
IN FIERCE RUNNING FIGHT.
Three Of Attacking Planes Bruuri1t
Down and Seven Others De.
stroyed Near Dunlkfrk. sFFs
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS !.
SEE REMARKABLE SIGHT
IN FIERCE RUNNING FIGHT
Three Of Attacking Planes BruuEht
Down and Seven Others De.
stroyed Near Dunlfrk. Icy

LONDON, July Tho second a..
scent upon London by a squadron ey4
a1rplanes was made this morning be-
tween and 10 o'clock, when the busf-
ness section OF the metropolis VA,
most crowded. sssSLf.
Although tho German eontfnren&
larger, moro daring, moro deliberatfvS
In It's methods and descended nrttrks
lower than on the visit-of June "a, tlso,
number of killed and wounded waa
according to tho first Official ron.
roughly. one-third the previous cas-.
uarty list. The destruction OF property
may have been greater, but that itets
Impossible to estimate.
Thirty-seven persons wsre kfI1ed IN
the air raid and III injured, Il Wa
officially announced this AFTERNOON. One
enemy machine was brought down's6S
the Royal Flying Corps.
The following announcement was
made by tho Admiralty, gsSff5
'The enerny raiding squadron wa
chased by tho Royal Naval Air Service
machines from this country ana al,
gagged forty miles out at sea OF the
east coast. Two enemy machines ~ de
observed tes crash into the sea, ana SthsTS
third enemy machine was saef to :fxii
In flames of the mouth of the Schefdt,.
All our machines returned safaIy.s, .ss,s
The official report In regard to cas-
uaIties follows; sas
Lord French reports that tho fetal
casualties reported by tho police up
to the present follow,
KILLED, metropolitan area, Men.
twenty-seveni women. four, children,
threei total, thirty-four. Isfe Of Tha-
net; Men, onei women, twot, total, thssS.
Total killed. thirty-seven. . ,e5ss
Injured, metropolitan areat DexdS.
sepenty-fourI women, tweuty-n4ns,
children. thirty-six; total, 1885, Ik1A.aa
Thaneti Women, onei children. ena:
total, two. Total injured, TAI, 8
zone enemy machine, downed hysShAr
Royal Flying Corps. fell into tho ga
on the mouth of tho Thames.H 49,
FLIGHT OVER CAPITAL sess
LASTS BUT TWENTY MTNUTES
The flight of the Germans cvor Ldn.
don lasted about twenty minutes, Eng,
lish airmen engaged tho eneny for
several minutes over tho metropolis,
and antiaircraft guns were drfnF
hriskly, but without destroying any 90 =
the twenty or more invading machines,
Tho Admiralty was able to report
tonight, however, that naval airnsa :
who followed them to sea brousht
down three machines, A Bfiti6k
squadron sent UP from Dunkirk tofin.
tercept the returning raiders did not
encounter them, because they shad
taken more northeriy route, but tho
British airmen met and DESTROYED
seven other German machinea
The weather was hazy, ana most
favorable for crossing the ehannel
without being observed, On thar
former visit. made in similar weather.,
the Germans kept high up in sfha Z,
mists. but to-day when they nearsdi
their detectives. most OF Thorn de-
scended. 80
Hundreds Of thousands OF people On
roofs. from windows and in the streeta
saw the remarkable spectacle, An
London heard the noise OF battle N t i
first there were few minutes when
tho antiaircraft guns were crashing
sharply and the machine guns were
rafting aloft Then came threescr
four minutes when the heavy expios
sion OF bombs and the shattertng u f
glass was the dominant seundi then 9
few minutes when the artillery drA
recedcd into the distance,
The Germans steered course across
London from northwest to southsa1t.
They dropped the last of their supply
OF bombs on section of WorkmeAia
dwellings. and crossed the Thames
Some observers say that giant air.
plano ploted the squadron, and that
the bomb carriers were In the cenfess
fianked by scouts for fighting OF It'd
British airmen. &
THEIR DAREDEVIL sIANNER
CAUSES GREAT sURPRISN
The low altitude and slow pacs at
which the Germans crossed London,
and the daredevil way they circled
over their detectives, has caused EreNt
surprise. AS the raiders left, fercAS
running fight ensued between thsia !:
and strong force Of British ma
chimes toward the mouth OF tho river.
None Of the Germans had been brought
down when the combatants Disappeared
from view, but the British sqaadron
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