The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-09-26
MANY CASUALTIES IN
ANOTHER AIR raid
MADE ON LONDON
Raiders Driven or by Anti-Aircraft
Guns After Few Minutes
Bombing.
REPORT ON MONDAYS RAID
Most of Casualties Suffered by
Persons Who Failed to
Take Cover.

London, Sept. 25.-Another hostile
airplanc raid on London took place
| tonight. There were two attacks ap-
parently, for after forty minutes
quiet interval anti-aircraft guns re-
sumed firing in the London district.
In the first attack after brisk firing
by the defense guns, lasting only ten
minutes, the raiders were driven off
without succeeding in reaching the
city of London.
The firing of the anti-aircraft guns
in the second attack was Of only brief
duration. The raiders were finally
driven off and the police gave out the
"all clear" signal at 9:3O o'clock
A report of the raid was issued by
Field Marshal French as follows:
"The Thames estuary was again
the object of an hostile air raid this
evening. The Kent and Essex coast
was crossed at various points and g.
few bombs were dropped but no cas-
ualtics as yet reported.
zone raider penetrated as far as
| the southeastern outskirts of London
where two bombs fell, causing some
twenty casualties"
Monday Nights Raids.
Fifteen persons were killed and
seventy injured in last nights raid
over London.
The Zeppelins which crossed the
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coasts did
not penetrate inland, being driven Off
by gunfre. Three women were iniur-
ed.
| Only two airplanes at the most
epnctrated the defense of London last
night, it is reported officially
The following official report was
given out by Lord French, command.
cr Of the home defcnses:
"Airplanc raid: The latest reports
concerning last nights airplanc raid
show that the group of raiders which
approached London was driven off by
the fire of anti-aircraft guns. Only
one, or at the most two machines,
penetrated the defcnscs. The casual
ed by the police up to the present are:
Killed, IS; injured, 70. The material
damage was not great.
"Airship raid: Enemy airshipx
crossed the Yorkshire and Lincoln.
shire coasts between midnight and 3
a. m. There is no evidence of their
having penetrated to any distance in.
land. They were driven off by gun
fire from various defended localities
which they attempted to approach.
Bombs were dropped on one coast
town, three women being slightly in
jUrcd. Little damage was caused"
Forced Raiders to leave.
1t appears that the fierce battle
which the British airplancs and anti
aircraft artillery put up forced the
raiders to leave London without drop
ping any considerable part Of their
cargo of explosives. Two bombs fell
in the Thames near the bridge, throw
ing a column of water so high that
it Splashed clear over the walls.
The enemy remained over London
at great height for the greater part
of two hours, and the raid appears
to have been on a prctcntiouS scale
but 1t was even more abortivc tnan
previous attempts. 1t is safe to say
that at least three fourths, and prob
ably four-ffths, of the casualties
were suffered by persons who had
failed to take cover.
A suburban county official named
lapwood dropped dead from ovcr-ex d.
citcmcnt during the raid.
Reports from Yorkshire indicate
that the Icppclins which appeared
early this morning off the Lincoln,
shire and Yorkshire coasts dropped
bombs and aerial torpedocs The
amount Of damage has not been as
certained. The signal that all was
clear was given at about o'clock
this morning.
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