Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-28 | Page 1 | Zeppelins Destroy 3 British Warships

leppel ns Destroy 3 3 British BERLIN Feb Peb 28 by wireless to On On the occasion ion of the last Zeppelin raid over England two goy government factories and two ammunition factories at Birmingham ingham and one one- ammunition am I factory near Bradford were de destroyed troyed by bombs the he Overseas News agency s says ys T The e news agency statement Wh which supplements the tile account g given ven ou out yesterday of the damage done by the airship attack on England o on the night of ot February 31 1 1 follows At Birmingham two government j factories and two ammunition factories factories factories fac fac- fac- fac tories were destroyed One brewery was damaged at Eccles Hill Near Bradford one ammunition factory and three spinning mills were wrecked At Partington our bombs destro destroyed ed twenty two twenty two houses On the Humber a battery was silenced silenced si si- si the cannon and searchlights being destroyed At Grimsby and in inthe inthe inthe the vicinity of Hull considerable damage damage damage dam dam- age was done as was also the case at Sheffield I IThe IThe The cruiser Caroline and nd the de tie- I Eden and Nith were sunk The Caroline sank in six minutes thirty-one thirty members of the crew being i killed fifty-eight fifty wounded and forty forty- seven drowned A Berlin di dispatch patch on February 10 said that the three warships mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- had been sunk during the Zeppelin Zeppelin Zeppelin Zep Zep- raid This was denied by the British government which stated that neither the Caroline nor any other British warship nor any merchant ship was struck by a bomb