White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-16

crDoSife Nicf0rla sihNon, "'s -.
ersl mansions In Brompton roao' Jun
Il 1917. a long stretch n me ,s
r. sm~ered from a series OF ooinos
dropped BY daylight raiders iai"
about one-quarter Of a mile apart
,hsf raid ten children were kiileh n's
fe.v ,n4ured ia a school In opinf'
sn5 There were several deaths IN 'ne
nonses of working people aiohg .as
raute. A train was struck outside 'n'
Liverpool street station.
TUenty-four Gothas ralded Lohool
Jn,v 2 1917. In daylight. One OF lne
bombs struck the general post :"
Gee. II penetrated two of the upper
saors and deranged much telegraph
snnarafns. The raiders sailed over
the c;tv at attitudes of from 2.ooo to
1900 feet. keeping their regular Tor
marion to the end. This ended he
daylight raids. al subsequent ones
having been by moonlight. except tns
last. which chose q dark night' an'
another under cover of a mist.
First Night Visitor.
The first night visitor came Seplen
her 4 1917. and went away withous
having done any mischief. Ihree
weeks later. when a squadron ao-
vanced 10 an attack, & barrage was IN
artion. Those that got through MT
fhe Bedford hotel in Southampton row
and wrecked a shop in Kings Cross
raad.
There were i've raids between Sep
TENDER - and october /. One or the
craft. September %, emptied Its cargo
Of bombs within a narrow area Oh
crowded streets abuttlng Old heh'
road doing some damage to properly
and causing several deaths. ofiicers
quarters in Chelsea hospital were
wrecked by q 50o-pound bomb OCTOBER
/ when damage was done TO the eros
venor road railway bridge.
October 70, q misty night, a Zeppe-
In feet made a trip TO England when
proved unhappy for itself. Only q
Of the number reached London. on
which Il dropped three heavy bombs,
one OF them in P~iccadilly Circus,
damaging the shop Of Swan & Edgar
ana causing casualties in a crowd
whiting there for an omnibus; another
damaging houses in Camberwell ana
The third wreeking house property IN
Hitler Green. Five of the fleet, haY-
lnc accomplished nothing in England
were brought down intact in France
on the trip homeward, when others
we're seriously damaged. There was
an early morning raid on Dnllwieh
September 6. with small results.
Try TO Bomb Hospital.
Raiders December Is. 1917. dropped
& bomb which narrowly missed Char
inc Gross hospital and demolished a
shop in Agar street. Another bomb
killed several persons on the Thames
e~mbankment and damaged Cleopatra's
Needle. A third set fire to a plano
factory In Clerkenwell road.
A raid Of January 2s, 1918, partially
wrecked the 0ldhams printing estab-
lishment in Long Acre, in the base
meni of which many persons had
taken shelter. Machinery and debris
from the upper floors fell into the
killing A. persons and In
turine 100. The same night a bomb
destroyed the old French how-
er market. Covent Garden. and anothr
er fell In a side street near the Savoy
hotel. February II the Midland Grand
hotel, st. Pancras. was damaged by
fhree bombs. one Of which brought
down the tower spires.
Then came In swift succession .
OF raids. the most memorable
OF which wns on the moonless night
OF March :, 1918. This was the "An-
rora Borealis." A compound bomb
that occasion proved very destruc-
i've 10 property In Mazda Vale. where
six houses were destroyed and yer
al hundred damaged. Mrs. Lena Ford,
an American, author of Keep the
Home Fires Burning" was among
those killed that night by the raiders.