NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE have written elsewhere of the raid by German airships on Tuesday night, but may mention here the bare facts. The airships, of which there were apparently three, were seen at 1.30 in the afternoon off the Dutch coast, and they must have reached England after dark. Their presence was unsuspected till bombs began to fall on Yarmouth about 8.30. Consider- able damage was done to houses, but some of the bombe did not explode. One bomb actually went right through a house without injuring anybody. A men and a woman, however, were killed. Later King's Lynn was visited by the airships, which on the way dropped bombe near Bran- caster, Heacham, Snettisham, and Sandringham. Hunstanton escaped, having probably been overlooked as it was in dark- ness. It is suggested that Heacham was mistaken for Hunstanton. At Lynn a boy and a woman were killed, and about one hundred and fifty houses were damaged. It cannot, of course, be pretended that any of the towns or villages bom- barded were fortified places. At Lynn there is no gun of any kind, and not even a Coastguard station.
