ZEPPELIN AIR RAIDS

The Zeppelin, which have been quiescent for some time, have resumed activity this week, though they have not proved any more reliable or formidable than in the past.

On Tuesday night a number of them appeared off the Yorkshire coast and one of them attacked but only dropped a few bombs, and made off.  The official report was that the damage was slight and only one man was injured. Earlier in the day a Zeppelin had been destroyed off the coast of Jutland by our light naval forces, the third destroyed at sea this year and the 23rd wrecked during the war. This raid was followed by one in daylight on Wednesday when ten enemy aeroplanes approached the Kentish coast near Ramsgate at about 10am, and been met and heavily engaged by machines of the R.F.C. and our R.N.A.S. as well as by gunfire from anti aircraft guns.  The raiders were unable to penetrate inland.

A small party travelled west as far as Margate, but they turned homewards. The remainder skirted the coast to the south as far as Dover and Margate. The casualties reported at present are three killed and two injured. The material damage is slight. Two of the enemy machines were brought down by anti-aircraft gunfire and our aeroplanes.

Express August 24th 1917.

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