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號六月九年七十壹百九千登英
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THE WAR.
TO-DAY'S
TELEGRAMS.
{Reuter's Service in the China Mad. )
THE LATEST AIR RAID ON thin over the town. All seemed to
ENGLAND
GUNFIRE FOR 1 HOURS - IN- LONDON.
Tapos, Sept. 23, London was startled yestenhay
minverge at some distance to the west, and returned from. Landon the same way, judging from the con tinaity of the gunsre.
NO SERIOUS FIRES IN LONDON.
evening by the outburst of anti-by the air raid, over London Ap
There were no serious, fires caused airecaft cunfire ་
The sheds of the gun and of the falling Tombs showed that the authek was ver a wishesprene aren.
Warnng was promptly given and the people sught cover, the Tubes being erowled. -
The gunfire. continned, intermit- tently, for one and a half hous and the searchlights were most pétive.
The raiders apparently approached from the south-east, steered to the north-west, and headed off to the Porth-western suburbs.
True was momentarily inter- rupted and the streets were largely deserted."
LATER.
incentiury. parently the
bomba were not
The raiders were heavily engagel their return and there were servigal fierce fights, corne far out to
Bombs were dropped over a wide. area.
THE GERMAN REPORT. A Germar official message sayı- Our aviators bon.hed London, Dover, Southend, Chatham, Sheer""". Loss and Dunkirk, causing fires. Al ime machines returned!
ANOTHER RAID.
LONDON, Sept. 3 British official announcement
Raiders crossed a part of London states that enemy neroplanes crossed the Essex cost at various points,
at nine in the evening.
A bohħ struck a grocery store kill. į this evening: ing two shop girls and also damaged |
tomers,
A few bombs were dropped and
a public bouse; injuring the une penetrated as fur ces the south
A bomb in another nevustem outskirts of Lonxion, and destroyed the top floors of a tóne-dropped two bonby causing 20 ment. A boy, who had taken refuge musualties. in a cellar, returning to join his bed riklen grundfather in the tenement. was killed, and the grandfather was injured. Another bomb exploded at the main entrance to an hotel. Several people were injure and a mur in the net of lighting a cigarette Jad his hand blown off.
F
BRITISH NAYAL "AIRCRAFT
DOWN" TWO ENEMY.
SCOUTS.
LONDON, Sept. 25. The Admiralty announces that naval aireruit dropped a large num- The restaurants were crowileder of bombs, yesterday morning, when the police whistles sounded, the among sheds and hangus and sero- aken. There was a rusts for shelter plaies at Varssenaere nerodrome. and the streets cleared like nagie: Our fighting patrol, on Monday, therefore the casualties were limited encountered a large formation of
A crowd, taking refuge in one of
Albatross bouts and destroyed
the Tube stations, sang the hynene and drove down another,
Eternal Father, strong to Save."
All our machines returned. Observers of the sky did not ree the aircraft which were at a presst altitude. Many coloured lights were visible dashing through the heavens, In wurystifying tanners,
The gunfire was more intense thun the dropping of, bombs, and there were, apparently, zeroplane combats.
ONLY ONE OR TWO PENETRATE LONDON'S DEFENCES,
..
FROM ITALY TO LONDON BY AEROPLANE.
LuSDOS, Sept. 25.
An Italian aeroplane, with an officer, pilot and observer, arrived in London yesterday morning from Turin.
They completed a fon-stop run of 700 miles in 42 minutes.
The neoplane which was piloted The Press Bureau announces that by Captain Laureate, left Turin ot our anti-aircraft guafire drove off
in the morning, and arrived at group of aeroplane raiders which ap- Hounslow at 2.50 p.m. The sero proached London last night. Only plane travelled from Modane to Culdz tone, „possibly two, penetrated the und over the French lines to Cape "defences."
The casualtion now totul 15 killed
Crossing the Alps the airman" ard. 70 injured, and the material entered fierce storm squale, o slurnage is not great.
fog bank, rain and clouds, with air- Enemy airships, crossing the York.pockets in the valleys. shire und Lincolnshire coasts, did not The airman carried the mails and penetrate for inland. They attempt. yesterday morning's Italian papers. ed to approach various defended localities, but our gunfire drove then
They dropped bombs on u coast town and slightly injured, three women. Little material damage was done
Lazer.
Captain Laureati, interviewed by Reuter aid that owing to a storm he took 100 minutes to cross the Alps instead of 50 as planned. His russimum altitude while crossing the Alps was 11,700 feet
Captain Lauresti, on August 15- mude a record non-stop fight from Turin to Naples and back, a distance of 1,075 kilometres, in ten hours and teli minutes.
NEWS FROM THE ESSEX:
A telegnin from an Essex coust town says that the gunfire and the droning of the aeroplanes, which FAMOUS GERMAN AIRMAN KILLED.
were obviously numerous, was heard. there for one and a half hours, after 7.30 in the evening, but no bomb were dropped on the town, though three terrific explosions were heard in the direction of London
Riporta frun an inland Desex town, say that apparently three enemy squadrons passed over the district at shofertas of 20 tes one to 159
north and
the south/anden
AMSTERDAM Sept. 25 Lieutenant Voss, the most famous German airman, and for whom victima are claimed, has been killed in an air fight.
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