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Show REGENT STREET NOT DESTROYED American Arriving in New York Declares Zeppelin Story Is Untrue. New York, Oct 18. Edgar Rickard, an American, arrived in New York yesterday on the steamer Ryndam, said today in reference to the Zeppelin Zeppe-lin attack on London of September 23: "I lived within a few blocks of Regent Re-gent street until October 5. No huild-ing huild-ing on Regent streot was oven struck. There was no damage whatever In the metropolitan district except at Brixton." "Eye witnesses state that more than 100 buildings were badly damaged, dam-aged, some of them being completely wrecked," says the news agency. "Tho damage Is estimated at more than 12,000,000. Regent street, London, which 1b tho main artery of commerce, com-merce, was for the most part laid in ruins. In a southern BUburb of London Lon-don an ammunition factory was blown up. "In Liverpool a bridge and tracks were damaged so badly that it will bo Impossible to use thorn for a long time. Several benzol tanks near the Thames were damaged. "Tho Grimsby barracks were hit and more than 400 soldiers wero killed. A cruiser with four -funnels which was anchored In the Humber was hit by a bomb and about sixty inoa were killed. Tho other, .imv ships wero damaged badly. At Hull some buildings were damaged so badly bad-ly that only the walls remained. Great damago was Inflicted on ammunition factories and railroad stations at Leeds. An ammunition factory and other buildings of Portsmouth wero struck, twelve cars loaded with horses wero destroyed, a dock was damaged, and railroad cars were blown up." London Papers Quoted. The German nowe agency gives quotation attributed to a London newspaper in which the theory Is advanced that the purpose of Zeppelin attacks is not the killing of women and children, but the curtailment of the production of ammunition by causing the suspension suspen-sion of work in ammunition factories after warnings of Zeppelin raids have been given, rather than by the destruction de-struction of factories. The news agency says this newspaper stated thousands of working hours wero lost In one week and continues: ''German papers compare these results re-sults with the affirmations of British Brit-ish papers that the air attacks caused no damage. They point out the fact that the British government blocked the cables of tho Hearst International News service because It sent out 'Incorrect 'In-correct reports to New York about the successes of German airships.' " Tho official British account of tho Zeppelin attack on the night of September Sep-tember 23 issued the following night said no reports had been received of any military damage. It was said a considerable number of small dwelling dwell-ing houses and shopB, two factories, a railway station and some empty railway rail-way trucks were destroyed or damaged, dam-aged, and that thirty persons were killed and 110 wounded. Berlin, Oct 18, by wireless to Say-vllle. Say-vllle. The Berliner Tageblatt declares de-clares that a London police court has absolved a dairyman who had been accused of adding water to the milk sold by him. The dairyman declared, according to the newspaper, that his cows were so frightened by the Zeppelin Zep-pelin attacks that the milk was spoiled. |
