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Show 27 KILLED AND 53 INJURED IN ZEPPELIN RAID LONDON. Oct. 20. Twenty-seven persons were killed and fifty-three injured in-jured in last night's Zeppelin raid. The following official announcement was made: "In last night's airship raid the casualties in all districts were: "Killed, twenty-seven; injured, fifty-three. fifty-three. There was some material damage dam-age to hospitals and business premises.'' After an interval of twelve months, London last night experienced another Zennclin raid. Nobody saw the raider, which flew at a great height and dropped onlv one bomb on London and a few missiles in the outlving districts. Feopie who had been given an earlv warning of the approaching aircraft hail left their shelters and were going home 'when a bnmb fell from an unseen and unheard airship, breaking many plate j;?-.- windovs. Thv sound of the bomb was unlike that of any in a previous raid. It was less shrill and heavier. The livening News commenting on the raid, says: "Last night another of oWr fond war delusions due, we suppose, to tho phlegmatic perversity of our national character was shattered. Statements from authoritative quarters made at various va-rious times had led us to believe the airshio menace had been mastered. How far this is from being the case is shown by the official report. "It may be pointed out that the moon a feeble one set at eight minutes min-utes past seven. It seems therefore that the moon is not a factor in German air calculations, which most people supposed. sup-posed. ' ' "The silent raid" is the name given to the Zeppelin's visit to Loudon last niplit. Manv Londoners awakened this morning with the feeling that there was a good deal to say for the official view against warning of night air raids. Although Al-though warning was given early in the evening, the people, after waiting hours for the sound of gunfiring went to bed believing the raiders had been inter-ceoted inter-ceoted off the coast. Then suddenly twoloud reports startled light sleepers, but as nothing followed a majority thought it merely was the firing of antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns in distant districts. |