2 FEBRUARY 1918, Page 2

Enemy airmen, about fifteen in number, made a raid on

London on Monday night, favoured by the moonlight and the exceptionally calm weather. Four or five machines reached the capital and dropped bombs between nine and ten o'clock. One bomb unluckily hit a crowded shelter which proved not to be tomb-proof, and killed or wounded many persons. Other casualties were caused by an unwarranted panic after the warning signals in the East End. Three hours later another party of raiders approached,- but only one reached London. The death-roll in London was forty-six, and one hundred and sixty:two people were injured. Elsewhere one person was killed and seven were injured. One of the raiders was brought down in Essex by two of our airmen, seventy of whom ascended to engage the enemy.