Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-02-20
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rho city from the north.

The frst airplane attack occurred
November %, 1916, when n single ma
cliine IN daylight dropped bombs which
damaged Victoria Palace Music hall,
opposite Victoria station, and hit sew
eral mansions In Brompton road. June
13, 1917, long stretch in the East
End suffered from series Of bombs
dropped by daylight raiders, falling
about one-quarter Of a mile apart. In
that raid ten children were killed and
ffty injured In school In Poplar,
and there were several deaths In the
houses Of working people along the
route. A train was struck outside the
Liverpool street station.
Twenty-four Gothas ralded London
July z, 1917, In daylight. One Of the
bombs struck the general post Of
flee. II penetrated two Of the upper
floors and deranged much telegraph
apparatus. The raiders sailed over
the city at attitudes OF from 1000 to
5000 feet, keeping their regular for
nation 10 the end. This ended the
daylight raids. all subsequent ones
having been by moonlight, except the
last, which chose dark night, and
another under cover Of a mist.
First Night Visitor.
The first night visitor came Septem-
ber 4. 1917, and went away without
having done any mischief. Three
weeks later. when a squadron adj
vanced to an attack, barrage was In
action. Those that got through hit
the Bedford hotel In Southampton row
and wrecked shop in Kings Gross
road.
There were five raids between Sep
tember 25 and October /. One of ths
craft. September %, emptied its cargf
of bombs within a narrow area oi
crowded streets abutting Old KEN
road doing some damage TO property
and causing several deaths. Officers
quarters In Chelsea hospital were
wrecked by 500pound bomb October
4, when damage was done TO the Gros
venor road railway bridge.
October 10. misty night, Zeppe
lin fleet made a trip to England whicl
proved unhappy for Itself. Only on
OF the number reached London, OF
which II dropped three heavy bombs
one OF them In Piccadilly Circus
damaging the shop of Swan & Edga
and causing casualties in a crow
waiting there for an omnibus; anotbe
damaging houses in Camberwell an
the third wrecklng house property l
HIther Green. Five. of the fleet, ha'
!, ing accomplished nothing In Englan'
: were brought down intact In Franc
a on the trip homeward, when Other
: were seriously damaged. There WI
!, an early morning raid on DullwlC
: September 6, with small results.
Try to Bomb Hospital.
Raiders December 1s. 1917, dropp'
l. bomb which narrowly missed Cha
% ing Cross hospital and demolished
L shop In Agar street. Another bon
s killed several persons on the Than
= embankment and damaged Cleopatra
l. Needle. A third set fire to plal
d factory in Clerkenwell road.
L. A raid of January 2s. 1918, partial
ID wrecked the oldhams printing esta
Ie lishment In Long Acre, In the has
ment of which many persons HI
taken shelter. Machinery and debi
y from the upper floors fell into I
s. basement, killing AZ persons and
e. jurlng 16o. The same night bor
r almost destroyed the old French flo
IS or market, Covent Garden, and anot
I'd er fell In side street near the Saw
e. hotel. February IL the Midland Gra
al hotel, st. Pancras, was damaged
r. three bombs, one Of which broug
i'd down the tower spires.
n Then came in swift succession
m series of raids, the most memorial
70. of which was ON the moonless mig
Of Of March z, 1918. This was the "A
e. rora Borealis." A 600-pound boz
n. on that occasion proved very destr'
tive to property in Mazda Vale, wht
IS. six houses We're destroyed and sew
ct al hundred damaged. Mrs. Lena Fo
h. an American, author of keep
pe Home Fires Burning" was amo
n those killed that night by the raide