Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-30 | Page 1 | German Flyers Raid Dunkirk

oo GERMAN FLVERS Fifty Bombs Thrown, Ten Incendiary In-cendiary Ones Private Homes Set on Fire. Dunkirk, France, Jan HO, via Paris. Jan. 30, 5:05 a. m The bombardment from the air carried out by the Germans Ger-mans last night came from six aeroplanes. aero-planes. It was a clear moonlight night but the machines could not be seen except when lit up now and then by the beam of a whirling searehllght by which the three inch anti-aircraft guns directed their fire. The droning of their propellers, however, how-ever, was heard some time before the aeroplanes arrived. This was sufficient suffi-cient notice and the tocsin was runs for the Inhabitants to seek shelter, according ac-cording to a plan arranged by the authorities. au-thorities. In all fifty bombs were thrown,, ten of which were incendiary ones A number of private houses were damaged dam-aged but the raid from a military point of view was a failure.