THE AERIAL RAID ON KARLSRUHE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 145, 19 June 1915, Page 5

THE AERIAL RAID ON KARLSRUHE.

NO PART OF THE CITY SPARED. TARDY BUT FITTING REPLY TO GERMAN METHODS. AMSTERDAM. June IS A newspaper correspondent quotes an eye-witnesr,' narrative of the raid on Karlsruhe. It was worse than the licriiians lielieved. A single airman appeared at 6.30, but he did not attract attention. Soon a buzzing was heard on all sides, and more aeroplanes appeared at high speed. A crr*vd gathered, assuming that the machines were German. Then motor horns and steam syrens hooted out the danger signals, and anti-aircraft guns opened fire. The aeroplanes spared no part of the city. Ncrvp.-.shattering crashes followed each other in quick succession. The inhabitants lied in blind panic to houses and cellars, leaving the dead and wounded where they had fallen. Some, of the. grea';st havoc was wrought nrr.r the Rondelplatz and the Karlfriedrich Strasse, where seven people were killed. The airmen disappeared at eight o'clock. Slowly the inhabitants ventured out and gathered at the spots where people had been killed. There is great satisfaction throughout Prance at the bombardment of Karlsruhe, as a tardy, but fitting, reply to the countless German attacks on unfortified towns.

KAISER DEEPLY INDIGNANT AT "WICKED ATTACK.'

(Received 9.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, .Tune IS. The Kaiser has telegraphed to the Grand Duke of Baden, expressing his deep indignation at the wicked attack on his beloved Karlsruhe. The fact that poor innocent victims among civilians were killed greatly distressed him. ITALIAN PORT BOMBARDED. BY AUSTRIAN CRUISER AND DESTROYERS. INSIGNIFICANT DAMAGE DONE. (Received 11.15 a.m.) ROME. June IS. An Austrian cruiser and four destroyers bombarded Fano. an Adriatic port between Ancona and Pesaro. The damage done was insignificant. An Austrian submarine torpedoed the Italian submarine Medusa, One officer and four of the crew were rescued and made prisoners.

ITALIAN PROGRESS ALONG WHOLE LINE. HUNGARIAN BATTALION ANNIHILATED AT MONTE NERO. OOXtZ UKDER FIRE OF THE BIG GUNS. ROME. June 18. It ie officially stated that the Italians are progressing on both sides of the RireT Adige. They dismounted some Austrian guns in the Carnic Alps and asrioualy dani-ged the fortress of Maiborgbctto. The Italians made prisoners in the- Monte Nero region tifjfi Austrian?, including thirty officer-, and captured many rides and two machine guns. They annihilated a Hungarian battalion, which \iolently attacked the Italian positions H_rt--e__t of Mente The Italian offensive nlotig the Isonzo is progressing, the troops debouching towards Plava. which was conquered after a sanguinary action on the surrounding height*. The Italians repulsed repeated obstinate counter-attacks. The Italian artillery fire paitiy destroyed the railway station at Gorz.

ITALIANS CUT TRANS-ALPINE RAILWAY.

AUSTRIAN CANNON AND MUNITIONS CAPTURED. (Received 11.10 a.m.) ROME, June 18. The Italians at Plava cut the Trans-Alpine railway, capturing in a tunnel • train containing cannon, machine-guns, and a quantity of ammunition.

BRITISH SUBMARINE IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

THREE TRANSPORTS SUNK IN GOLDEN HORN

TROOPS AND CREWS DROWNED

ROME, June IS. Another British submarine reached Constantinople and sank two vessels and a large steamer in the Golden Horn. All the forts and warships fired, but did not hit the submarine.

What is presumably the same incident is thus described in a message from Athena:—"A British submarine on Wednesday torpedoed and sank three transports beyond Nagara. Tbe greater part of the troops and crews were drowned. Two gunboats were escorting the troopships."

TROUBLED TIMES AT TURKISH CAPITAL.

SUCCESS OF BRITISH SUBMARINE CAUSES ALARM

~ POSITION OF BULGARIA AND RUMANIA.

(Received 5.30 a.m.! LONDON. June 18. The "Times" correspondent at Constantinople says that Turkish families are emigrating to Asia. The recent success of British submarines has alarmed the Council of War. Several Turkish destroyers have been specially detailed to pursue the submarines. Activities of the Turkish fleet are restricted in a marked manner as a consequence of the exploit. If the attacks arc renewed it has been decided to sink several old ships at the narrowest part of tfle Dardanelles to restrict -the passage. Factories are closing down owing to lack of coal, and the Anatolian railways will shortly cease running. The principal cause of the shortage is the Russian fleet's destruction of the collieries at Zungueddac.

Four German submarines are at Constantinople, one large and three small. The large craft arrived via Gibraltar, and tbe others were sent overland.

German diplomats are trying to persuade the Turks to cede Dedeagatch to Bulgaria in the hope of avoiding a rupture.

A correspondent at Bucharest says that since the outbreak of war Rumania has recognised that she must sooner or later participate in the straggle OH p_i_ of forfeiting perhaps forever the realisation of her national projrranni ie. Rumania is ready for immediate action, but a satisfactory UXk-fleß-Ot -T_- Bulgaria _»t_fi-be>- a-,-C_ii_.hle Bulgaria^.has