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Show ZEPPELINS RIB THE HEART OF LONDON Wednesday Night's Raid of German Airmen Results Re-sults in the Death of Twenty Persons and Injury of Eighty-six, According to English Official Report. 0 AMERICANS IN THE CASUALTY LIST fhe Total Casualties in the Twenty Raids Since he War Commenced Are 122 Killed and 349 Injured; Much Excitement Ex-citement in the British Capital. rv'il Cable br Arrangement with Tvonrjnp Daily Te:agrapb isd International News Service.) LONDON, Sept. 9. Wednesday gbt's Zeppelin raid on Condon re-Jteu re-Jteu in the death of twenty persons id the injury of eighty-six others, ac rdiag to official announcement made re tonight. This makes a total of irty-three killed and 129 injured in e raids of two successive nights. The most alarming feature of this lat-t lat-t visit of the Zeppelins, however, was .at tiey invaded the heart of the citv the western part wherein are locat-S locat-S inch landmarks as St. James pal-e, pal-e, Westminster abbey, the parliament iMings. the Charing Cross railroad ition, the fashionable residential dis-Ati dis-Ati and, on the edge, the great fac-nei fac-nei and warehouses. ermans Make Statement. This fact is not contained in the ger accounts of the raid issued by s official press bureau, and. as here-fore, here-fore, the newspapers are allowed to Wish only such information as is giv-oot. giv-oot. The information, however, is ren in the following official German tement received here tonight: Our naval airships attacked during he nights of September 8 and 9 the" estrn part of the city of London, he great factories near Norwich and he harbor works and iron works at Uiddlesboro. There were heavy ex-iloslons ex-iloslons and numerous fires were ob-terved. ob-terved. Our airshlpa were heavily ired at by hostile batteries, but all 'eturrred safely. Durine the previous night other 'stablighments in London and vicinity vi-cinity were bombarded with explosive -.nd incendiary bombs, and the effect a very satisfactory. H mention is made in tile official tement of the official press bureau the attack on the western part of the J- They merely state that "the Ger-M Ger-M airships flew over the eastern coun- of Ensland and the London district." mplete Casualty List. pie complete casualty list as given out lows; villed, twelve men. two women and six 'Idren; injured seriously, eight men. -" women and two children: injured Jhtlr. .thirty-eight men, twentv-three men and eleven children One soldier killed and three were injured. The wri.an embassy reports that there " no Americans either killed or In- The total casualties in the twenty fStace lh war commenced are 122 'd and 343 injured. the first time the newspapers were M to comment editorially on the . con,men' being mostly in the m or warnings. The Evening Standard f&rA9 aalnat tnp "noticeably .spread an. dangerous disposition to M th. affair a8 a spcrles Qf Bpcc - It : mgyesta that in addition to mSZ ! whlch' WIthin ,imltfl nbl moment of war," there i8 also BU from anti-aircraft Kuns. ThrrP-Vtte ThrrP-Vtte Standard adds, it would be well the aerial vision, more seriously. arms of Americans. fcSfJ1 raid over Kn,a"- th th which have CdrorTr tbat th Gn aero- dropped bomb, on tbe old elty of 35Lf2Lli wbifh r-on- (Coutinued on Page Three.) ZEPPELINS FIND THE HEART f LONDON (Continued fiom Page One.) tains the hoiels. business district and ihe landmarks famous the world over. In this district there are normally thousands of American tourists at this time of the year,' although their number is far below tl' average this summer, on account of i lie war. The Germans. In their Zeppelin attarks, have aimed repeatedly at London. They f have succeeded previously In dropping bombs within the metropolitan district, but so far as is known no earlier attempt produced the effects of Wednesday night's raid. In this connection, it is significant that the British press bureau, in announcing an-nouncing the result of the attack, confined con-fined Itself to an account of the casualty, making no reference to property damage, as was done in earlier announcements of the kind. The German war office was almost al-most as reticent, saying, in ita official statement, that bombs were dropped on docks and other port establishments in , London and vicinity and that "the effect was very satisfactory." London Deeply Stirred. Whether or not extensive damage was donfe to property in the center of the city, it la apparent that tondon was deeply stirred by the attack. It may be Inferred In-ferred that the bombardment was of so serious a nature as to arouse fear on the part of the Americans in London that their friends In this country would be alarmed for their safety. The censor passed a dispatch stating that there were no Americans among the dead or wounded, according to reports made by the American embassy and the American consulate. A cablegram from the Ixmdon office of the Chicago Daily News said that all there were safe. Carefully worded articles In Ijondon newspapers com eyed a similar intimation, the Pali Mall Gazette speaking of the raid as "Londoners' first glimpse of the war ai close quarters." |
