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Zeppelin crash hits Ghent orphanage in World War I raid
Zeppelins raid the east coast of England and Belgium. Canadian aviator R A J Warneford drops incendiary bombs from 6000 feet, setting the airship ablaze and causing a crash into an orphanage near Ghent with the crew and several orphans killed. Western front battles surge around Arras Neuville St Vaast and Aisne as Allied gains continue. London and Paris report progress in Gallipoli, Galicia, and the Adriatic. Italian and Austrian fronts also see action with shifting fronts and naval losses.
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England
R. A. J. Warneford
Warneford
Ghent
Arras Neuville
St. Vaast
Aisne
French War Office
Teutons
Galicia
France
Gallinpol
Turkey
London
Paris
Adriatic
Italy
Vienna
Lemberg
Przemysl
Baltic Sea
Petrograd
Gulf of Riga
British Isles
Menaphier
Casablance
Aegean
Switzerland
Austria
Albania
Scutari
Starova
Galobardo
Elbasan
Hasi
Ljuma
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Star of
Sunlight
Gallipoli
Souches
Neuville
Vienna War Office
Chiasso
Tyrol
Kreuzberg
Sea of Marmora
Gulf of Trieste
Cadorna
David Lloyd George