NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ANO'1•kiER Zeppelin raid has taken place and ended with glorious credit to the defenders. On Monday night several airships crossed the East Coast in misty weather and proceeded inland. More than one hundred bombs were dropped in Yorkshire and Durham, but only sixteen persons were injured. One woman, however, died from shock. In one town fifteen houses were seriously damaged. There was no damage of military importance. The price paid by the raiders was very heavy. One airship was attacked by an aeroplane of the Royal Flying Corps and brought down in flames in the sea off the Durham coast at 11.45 p.m. Another was re- peatedly attacked by guns and Royal Flying Corps aeroplanes, and was apparently damaged as she was unable to reach the coast before dawn and was then moving slowly. She seems to have effected repairs, however, and soon, like a wounded pheasant that has stopped for a breather and then goes on as fast as ever, she rose to a great height and went over the sea at high speed. Nine miles out she was attacked by four machines of the Royal Naval Air Service and an armed trawler. At 8.45 a.m. on Tuesday she was brought down in flames. The German raiders have no doubt a wholesome dread of the outer London defences since they have lost four airships in trying to reach the. capital. But it is a revelation even to ourselves that the defences of other parts of England have improved so enormously.
