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Show ZEPPELINS MAKE RAID ON ENGLAND BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON THE SUMMER HOME OF KING GEORGE AT SAND RING HAM. Five Persons Killed and Extensive Damage Done When Hostile Craft Drop Bombs, Raid Being Carried Car-ried Out During Night. London. German Zeppelins raided the Norfolk coast Monday night in the first of the threatened air attacks at-tacks on England. Five persons were killed and extensive ex-tensive damage was done in the city of Yarmouth and the seacoast towns of Cromer, Beeston, King's Lynn and Sheringham. The hostile craft bombarded Sand-ringham, Sand-ringham, the favorite country estate of King George and Queen Mary. Their majesties had left the palace only a few hours earlier for London, thereby escaping grave peril. The raid was carried out in utter darkness, dark-ness, the air craft picking their course by searchlight flashes. London "became panicky following reports of the incursion, and all constables con-stables were called out at midnight to watch for flashes from " the searchlights of the invading craft That the raid was made by three Zeppelins appears almost certain. Three of the dirigibles were sighted Monday afternoon flying toward the North sea over the Frisian islands, which skirt the north Dutch coast. The nearest German territory on this course is 2S0 miles from Yarmouth. Yarmouth, 110 miles from London, was the first place raided. At 9 o'clock the population of more than 50,000 was startled by the report of a bomb and successive explosions. Four or five projectiles were dropped. drop-ped. One struck near a man In the street and blew off his head. At least three other persons are reported report-ed killed. |