5 FEBRUARY 1916, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ON Monday evening the Germans made an air raid on England on an extensile scale, in which six or seven airships are said to have taken part. No attacks wore made on London and the South, the Midlands being the enemy's objective. After crossing the coast the Zeppelins separated and, steering various courses, dropped bombs, over three hundred in all, in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Leicester- shire, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire. Except, however, in one part of Staffordshire, the actual damage was not considerable, and • in, no case was any military damage caused. The number of killed is said to be fifty-nine and of injured one hundred and one.
