WAR IN THE AIR.
THE. lEPPELIN RAID. INQUEST ON~THE VICTIMS. KAISER'S TERRIBLE RESPONSE ! BiLITY. (Received October 19, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 18. An inquest was opened regarding tho death of an additional 23 victims of the Zeppelin raid, all killed in one a-roa. • The evidence showed that a railway goodsman was killed when he was entering a restaurant, both thighs being broken; his wife, who was beside him, was unhurt. Another man outside thy same house was cut through the neck by broken glass, and killed, and a woman noarby had the lower part i;i' her spine smashed. Another bomb struck a motor-'bns, killing the driver, conductor, and a special constable. A house decorator who was badly injured and taken to a hospital, insisted upon tho doctor first attending to n man next to him; both succumbed in a lew hours. The Coroner, in summing up, suggested to the jury that they should refrain from 1 expressing indignant feelings in their verdict. The father- of one victim protested that his son had been killed by the
Kaiser's order, and said: "I summon the Kaiser to meet me before the Judgment Seat of God to answer for the death of my son and of those other 22 poor people."
. The jury's verdict was that the deaths were the result of an aid raid.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8273, 19 October 1915, Page 5
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