15 MAY 1915, Page 3

Early on Monday morning a Zeppelin dropped about eighty bombe

on Southend. One woman was burnt to death in her bed, her husband was injured, and considerable damage was done to property, a timber yard and a boarding-house being burned out. The results attained by this costly expenditure of explosives were insignificant from a military point of view. The Germans, after their wont, describe Southend in their official report as a "fortified place."