ZEPPELIN DROPS BOMBS ON CALAIS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 5

ZEPPELIN DROPS BOMBS ON CALAIS.

ATTEMPT TO DESTROY RAILWAY STATION FAILS. HOSPITAL AND CATHEDRAL STRUCK. LOXDOX, March 19. Paris reports that a Zeppelin discharged bombs on Calais, aiming at the railway station. The bombs killed seven railway employees. Xo material damage was done to property. The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Calais says that the Zeppelin arrived at midnight. The town was immediately darkened, and quick-firers were manned, but the searchlights were unable to penetrate the fog. The bombs fell for 18 minutes, and were mostly of an incendiary type, only one of which was effective. It fell on to a railway carriage, in which mechanics were sleeping. The carriage was soon ablaze, and eeven men were killed, their heads and limbs being blown off. Xine were extricated alive. Another bomb pierced the transept of Notre Dame Cathedral, and a third damaged the Lamorcq Hospital. _ . , The railway tracks were blazing with burning petroleum where the bomb fell for an hour after the Zeppelin left. An official Berlin message says that French airmen dropped bombs on the Schlettstadt school, killing two girls and wounding ten. As a reply Calais was bombarded with the heaviest bomba. TAUBE DROPS BOMBS IN FLANDERS. * WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED AND "WOUNDED (Received 8.5 a.m.) ~"\ PARIS, March 19. A Taube dropped eleven bombs on Poperingue, in Flanders, 7 miles west of Ypres. The bombs killed a woman, three children, and two soldiers, while 7 children and 13 adults were wounded.