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Show Another Raid Under Way; 107 Killed and 86 Wounded at Chatham Chat-ham in That of Monday Mon-day Night; Six Enemy Airships Take Part. BRITISH AIRMEN ATTACK BRUGES Naval Airships Bomb Docks,. Sub marine Shelters and Railway Sidings in Belgium; Pola Assaulted by Thirty Italian Planes. LONDON, Sept. 5, 12:31 a. m. Another air raid on England has taken place. The English coast was shelled, as well as the Loudon district. The official report of tho raid says: "A considerable number of enemy airplanes crossed the southeast south-east coast at 11 o'clock last (Tuesday) (Tues-day) night and dropped bombs at a number of places. Some of the machines reached the Loudon district dis-trict where bombs were dropped. ' 'No reports of damage have yet been received." LONDON. Sept. 4. In last night's air raid 1 07 persons were killed and etshty-slx etshty-slx wounded at Chatham, It Is announced officially. Chatham is on the east bank of the Mcdway, tlUrty miles southeast of Ion-don. Ion-don. It Is the seat of immense military and naval establishments, iiieludlns a vast dockyard, an arsenal and ext ensive liar-rack?. liar-rack?. The term naval ratings applies to the prude of -men on board ship, usually those before the mast. The victims were naval rat lugs. .Six air pi tines took part in the rn id. In addition to the naval casualties ono civilian was killed and six were Injured. The a n noun cement follows: Lord Kreneh (commander of (he j British home forces) reports that last night's air raid was earrlcd out by about six enemy airplanes, which proceeded pro-ceeded up the south hank of tho Thames estuary to Chatham, llomhs were- dropped in the I si-1 of Tha net and In the Sbeeriiess-Oia I ham area between IOM0 p. m. and 1 1 ::0 p. m. There were no army casualties. Civilian Civ-ilian casualties reporw d at present ore: Civilian Killed. Killed, one; Injured, fix. The material damage was slight. Our machines went up and anti-aircraft guns came into action, but wil hout result . The secretary of the admiralty n ports that In tho course1 of t lie air ra id last night the following casualties wn- caused to naval ratings: Killed, Ju7 ; wounded, wound-ed, eighty-six. The air raids over the southeast coast on Sunday ami Monday nights seem to have been more for the purpose of ts-tlrie: ts-tlrie: the possibility of attack by moonlight moon-light than in the hope of doing any con-bldi-rahlf damage. Jlke the single avlalor who dropped bombs on Jwver Sunday pif:bt, those who came last night k pi at a v-ry hiub altitude aud wliib tW-ir ma ih 1 1 ics could by liiird they could not he s-i.-n. Nevcrt b'.'lcss, JJritisii niipla.ma kept up in pursuit. British Attack Bruges. I,( )Ni )i)N, pi 4. 'out inning t hHr raids over lii'lgjum, i'.rltisli aviators on Sunday night made att.'n-hs m the vicinity vi-cinity of Kruc-s. A llnib.h airplane fought six '! mans and rho! down one of them. Th- following a-ci t. of these opera lions was given out today: Naval aircraft made a bnmbmi; raid at midnight Sunday on tin- dncKs, Bubmarim- rh'-lfrs and railway Hidings Hid-ings at Crug'S. ioml.'i t- oh. nerved to explode ov r th- Objectives and Hm- -auk caus'-d adjieent to the, Joek gales of Ibe lhlM canal. A r;.id way also made e:-rly Mon-da Mon-da v on t be a irdrorne. at Va rsseriae re (four and one-hmf nubs M-uthweM of Urugi s). p.omba were m-cii to explode among the fmed.;. ( uw- of our rnaebln'-s was attacked by Flx hostile- air craft and t-uceee-).., p. nhooi-ing nhooi-ing down one, completely nut of enn-trol. enn-trol. In a n engage me nf be r ween one of our1 aircraft pa l cols and enemy ene-my ma chines til-re w-re three derisive de-risive comb. us. One of our machines failed to return. Attack Pola. l:o;.t !;, s. pi. l. via London. -Thirty Italian a ii pla ne dropped mm- tons of (Continued on Paae Two.) LONDON IS SHELLED BY TEDTOi AIRCRAFT (Continued from Page One.) bombs on the Austrian naval base at Pola, causing destruction and large conflagrations, con-flagrations, it is announced officially. All the Italian machines, although determinedly de-terminedly attacked, returned safely. Dispatches from towns on the southeast south-east coast say many inhabitants believed last night's raiders were Zeppelins, as they made much more noise than usual for airplanes. There was heavy firing, first at one point and then at another and finally heavy explosions occurred. Shortly before 9 o'clock explosions and heavy firing could be heard in the direction direc-tion of Dunkirk and Calais and it was thought a raid on a large scale was taking place along the French coast. This lasted until nearly midnight, when warnings were given and shortly afterward bombs began to drop. Anti-aircraft guns went Into action and the whirr of airplane engines en-gines could, be heard. Searchlights were brought into operation, but failed to pick out the raiders. |
