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Show TWENTY-EIGHT KILLED IN RAID British Report Casualties of Zeppelin Flight Over England's Eng-land's Eastern Countries. MANY BOMBS DROPPED Anti-aircraft Guns Damage "One Dirigible, the" C-15, Which Falls Into the Sea. London, April 1, 3 59 p. m. Twenty eight persons were killed and forty-four forty-four injured in last night's air raid, according to official figures given out today. It was officially announced this afternoon af-ternoon that the Zeppelin dirigible balloon which fell into the sea was the L-15. One of the five Zeppelins which visited vis-ited tho eastern counties of England during the night dropping some ninety nine-ty bombs, was damaged, presumably by British anti-aircraft guns, and same down off the Thames estuary. It surrendered sur-rendered to British patrol boats. Tho crew was saved but the airship broke up and sank while being towed In. Twenty-Second Air Raid. The raid of last night was the twen ty-second of the war. The lost Zeppelin Zeppe-lin was the third of her class to como to grief In these raids. Details of the attack have not been published by the authorities. From unofficial sources It Is learned that many of the bombs were dropped either into the sea or in places where no damage was done. It was an ideal night for the raid. "Everything was in favor of tho Zeppelins, Zeppe-lins, including tho atmospheric pressure pres-sure and tho lightness of the wind. The dirigibles came In over the coast early in the evening and, sailing high, divided their forces. Those who saw them say thoy were larger than tho dirigibles used on previous visits. They kept at such a height that they wero out of range of anti-aircraft guns no iiiov TvisRod inland. During the evening Zeppelins were reported at various points. It was not until after midnight that announcement an-nouncement was made of their departure. depart-ure. ..,,... Zeppelins at Great Height. The Zeppelins remained at much greater heights than during previous Visits and consequently very few persons per-sons saw them except when they were picked out by the British search-Hchts. search-Hchts. Their great height also had the effect of preventing the accurate selection of their targets and their bombs dropped Indiscriminately. Some places were passed over wltn-out wltn-out being nttacked while in other instances in-stances a number of bombs fell within with-in a melius of a couple hundred yards information at present at hand indicates indi-cates that the damage done was chiefly in the smaller towns. The Zeppelins first made their presence pres-ence known by dropping bombs snort-lv snort-lv after 9 o'clock and at some points the aerial bombardment was still . proceeding at 1:80 o'clock this morning. morn-ing. The identity of the wrecked Zeppelin Zeppe-lin wns disclosed in the .folowing statement: " " "Fifty-four explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped over the eastern counties and twenty-two over tho northeast coast. The L-15 was hit near tho tall by gunfire over the eastern east-ern counties. She dropped off Kent A machine gun, some ammunition and a petrol tank were dropped bV this or another airship." The pilot of a steamer which was passing at the time of the surrender of the Zeppelin which came down in the Thames estuary, says that the airship was surrounded by British patrol pa-trol boats. The crow came one by one, sold the pilot, holding up their hands as token of surrender. |