On Tuesday afternoon the Admiralty announced that a squadron of
hostile airships raided the East Coast on Monday night and Tuesday morning between 8.30 p.m. and 12.30 a.m. Fires caused by incendiary bombs were speedily extinguished and no material damage was done, but fourteen persons—one man, nine women, and four children—were killed and fourteen—five men, seven women, and two children— wounded. All the men killed or wounded were civilians, and the women and children numbered twenty-two out of the twenty-eight casualties, The Admiralty added the gratifying announcement that one of the Zeppelins—it seems that five were employed in the raid—was seriously damaged by our anti- aircraft guns, and on being towed into Ostend was attacked by the allied aeroplanes from Dunkirk and completely destroyed. The report adds that the night was extremely dark and foggy in places, rendering night-firing by aero- planes very difficult, and attnounoes that Flight Sub-Lieutenant R. Lord, one of the pilots sent up to engage the enemy, was killed on landing in the dark.
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