25 AUGUST 1917, Page 2

This week we have had two enemy air raids. On

Tuesday night acme Zeppelins, after an interval of two months, appeared off the Yorkshire coast. One, or perhaps two, came inland, bombed some coast villages, and injured one man. The raiders then departed. On Wednesday morning ten enemy Gotha aeroplanes approached Reanagale, but were so heavily engaged by our machines and our guns that they could not penetrate inland. Some of them returned by way of Margate, others by way of Dover, dropping bombs on both towns as they fled. The casualties at Dover and Rainmaker were eleven killed and twenty-six injured ; at Margate no one was hurt. Throe of the enemy machines were brought down on or near the coast. The naval airmen at Dunkirk failed to intercept the rest, but drove down five out of a flight of twenty-five enemy scouts which were waiting to escort the invaders borne.