Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-24 | Page 1 | Germans Raid City of Dover

CITY OF DOVER Naval Aeroplane Drops Bombs on Station, Barracks and Docks of Port. .Berlin.Jan. 24, by vjreless..tor5ayi ville. The German admiralty issued the following today: "A Gorman naval aeroplane during the night of January 22-23 dropped bombs on the station, barracks and docks of Dover." The official British account of the German aeroplane attack as given out yesterday said that the east coast of Kent was visited early Sunday morning by a hostile aeroplane which dropped nine bombs, killing one person per-son and injuring six. The German report does not mention men-tion the second raid, said by the British Brit-ish war office to have been made on the east coast of Kent by two seaplanes, sea-planes, shortly after noon yesterday. Dover Is one of the chief ports of communication between England and the continent It has the finest harbor har-bor on the channel and since the completion com-pletion of the harbor works In 1909 it has been an Important naval station. sta-tion. It has extensive docks and naval establishments and a large garrison. gar-rison. oo