The War Office, in a further statement on the Zeppelin raid, announces that 28 men, 28 women and 7 children were killed and 48 men, 48 women and Tt gives dotal done to inclu: establishments in order to show the unfoundedness of the claim that the economic life and military preparations of Great Britain can be affected by promiscuous bomb-dropping from air-ships wandering in the dark.
One hundred and thirty-three men, of whom 17 were soldiers, 90 women and 43 children have been killed in the 29 air-raids made on Great Britain since the outbreak of the Wa Serious damage was done to three breweries, three railway sheds, one engine-shed, one tube-factory, one lamp-factory and one blacksmith-shop, and minor damage, such as the shattering of glass and of doors, occurred at a munition-factory, two iron-works, a crane-factory, a harness-factory, a rt di, a colliery and No docks, granaries, munition factories or industrial establishments of any sort were damaged except those mentioned.
Some fifteen workmen's houses were damaged and a large number of small shops and dwelling houses injured, some seriously and many slightly.
Such detailed statements will not be issued in future as it is inadvisable to inform the enemy of the results of these air raids. This statement is given because the number of airships employed was larger than in any previous raid.
When it is remembered that 1,198 men, women and children perishe? in the sink of the Lusitania alone, Zeppelin raids as a means of murdering innocent civilians must be comparatively disappointing to their promoters.
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