From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 17 April 1915:
The chief event, or rather sensation, of the week has been the German aircraft raids—first on the Tyne on Wednesday, and then on Thursday over Lowestoft and Malden and other parts of South Suffolk and North Essex. Both raids were quite futile. The raid on the Tyne caused no lose of life and very little destruction of property, and yet nearly thirty bombs were dropped I The accounts of the second raid are very meagre, but apparently the results were equally poor. In the case of the Tyne the small amount of damage was no doubt due to the fact that the moment the presence of the airship was reported all lights were extinguished and all tramcars and trains stood fast.
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