The Archive · 1915

German Aerial Raid On' the East Coast

THE DAMAGE IN KING'S — LYNN — London, Jan: 20

A telegram sent from Amsterdam at 2 a.m. states that three German airships have passed over Hellum, Vlieland and Terschelling, returning from the west.

The King and Queen left Sand-bingham yesterday and arrived in London several hours before the appearance of the hostile aircraft. A Zeppelin passed over Dersingham, half a mile from Sandringham House, but the nearest place where bomb was thrown was Heacham, near Hunstanton.

In the street at King's Lyon where some houses were demolished, all the front doors of the houses were burst in and the furniture scattered.

The report that a Zeppelin was brought down at Hunstanton is not confirmed.

It appears that six air craft reached the British coast and then separated, some going north and some south. The Yarmouth authorities say positively that their visitors were aeroplanes, The situation in the raided towns is already normal.

Cromer cleverly escaped damage owing to the officials promptly extinguishing all lights; the German air craft did not see the town and 80 dropped no bombs.

A soldier has died from his wounds at Yarmouth.

The intensely dark night on Tuesday has wrapped the German raid in profound mystery. Opinion is divided as to whether the raiders were aeroplanes or Zep-behns. The latest idea is that it was a each made by aeroplanes combined with Zeppelin movements. The most significant fact of the whole occurrence is that such, com-_Paratively, small damage was done. stem a dozen persons were injur-

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