Since our last issue there has been a series of
Zeppelin raids. The first was on the night of Friday week. The Zeppelins were organized in two squadrons and one detached ship. The two squadrons visited the Eastern Counties, and the detached ship raided the North-East Coast. Nearly two hundred bombs were dropped altogether. The ' L15 ' while over the Eastern Counties was apparently hit by gunfire She seemed to be itruck high up near the tail. She was immediately observed to drop to a lower altitude, and eventually fell into the sea near the Kentish Knock Lightship, like a pheasant that has carried on a long way after being hit. This Zeppelin or another—it is not certain which—dropped on the land a machine gun, some ammunition, a petrol tank riddled with shrapnel, and some machinery. The casualties on this night were forty-three killed and sixty-six injured. A Baptist chapel, three houses, and two cottages were demolished, and a town hall, four houses, thirty- five cottages, and a tramcar shed partially wrecked.
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