25 MARCH 1916, Page 2

Four German seaplanes raided East Kent last Sunday early jn

the afternoon. _ The first-dropped. six bombs inDever Harbour, and then some on the town.. The second dropped bombs on Deal. The third and fourth bombed Ramsgate. About forty-eight bombs were dropped altogether. Some houses were damaged, and the casualties amounted to three men, one woman, and seven children killed and over thirty persons injured. Flight-Commander Bone, R.N.A.S., in a single-seater aeroplane, performed the fine feat of bringing down one of the raiders thirty miles out at sea. He bit the seaplane many times and killed the observer.