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Show THIRTY KILLED IN nERIALJIInCKS TWELVE ZEPPELINS RAID LONDON LON-DON AND THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES OF ENGLAND. Missiles Dropped Caused Numerous Fires and Demolished or Damaged a Large Number of Residences and Stores. London. Twelve Zeppelins which raided London and the southeast counties of Kngland Saturday night, killed thirty persons and Injured 110 others, according to a British official statement. Of the casualties, twenty-eight twenty-eight men, women and children were killed and ninety-nine men, women and children were injured In the metropolitan met-ropolitan area of London. Two persons were killed and eleven Injured In an east midland town and It is feared that two other bodies may bo burled In the ruins. The missiles dropped caused numerous numer-ous fires, and demolished or damaged a large number of residences and stores In Ixndon. Two of tho raiders were brought down in Essex. They were both large airships and of a new pattern. One of them fell In flames and was destroyed, destroy-ed, together with tho crew. The crew of twenty-two men of the second were captured. |