BOMBING OF KARLSRUHE.
CIRCUS REPORTED HIT. 120 PERSONS KILLED. Received June 26. 7 p.m.) BERNE. JUNE 25. It is reported that during the recent raid on Karlsruhe, French bombs killed 120 and wounded 200 persons at a circus. The town was panic-stricken. Travellers state that the populace were holiday-making, and many were attending Hagenbeck's menagerie- Bombs intended for the railway line must accidentally have fallen on spectators at the circus. The German press is indignant at this reprisal for attacks on French towns.
GERMANS MAIM CHILDREN.
PABIS. JUNE 25. German aeroplanes bombed Lunevillp. Baccarat, and Saint Die, in the Vosges sector, where some children were wounded. The bombardments were noted with a view to reprisals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16266, 27 June 1916, Page 8
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