A TRAGIC FLIGHT. NO ZEPPELIN POISON BOMBS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 19, 22 January 1916, Page 11

A TRAGIC FLIGHT.

NO ZEPPELIN POISON BOMBS.

SOME RESULTS OF KULTUR,

Mr. Stephen Graham lias '"been to Kiel!, and seen' what flight before the advancing Gcrmnn troops* means to the Russian -peasantry. In - a ■graphic article in the "Times" he says:-"I eit' in an immense waiting room- thronged with people. It is fi?.Tibly hot and noisy and depressing. Children are crying everywhere, babies at the breast, babies on nil fours crawling among bandies, children of .all ages—-they are terribly'hungry and sleepy. The parents sit about with careworn, anxjous ;; faces ...and! strained eyee, or curling themselves", uncouthly about bundles of -quilts' and clothes, sleep, snore. It is a rainy evening, and the rain beats against the station windows. Thousands of. fugitives are waiting at every station; platform, barracks camping; ground. '_ Twenty; thousand fugitives arrive every day, and they may not stay. "They are assigned to" provinces in the depths of Russia, given free passage in goods trains, .arid .so as not to impede the rear of*the Itiissiaii army; also to relieve--Kieff flf".tremendous destitution and to give t the unfortunate wanderere a- better* chance to start life afresh. They, arrive- by-, the trains, depart by the trains, arrive in their carts, go in their earls; Frbiri the banks of the Dneiper you - look'down on a never-ending procession of slowly moving cart-tilts, the fugitives leaving the city, going on. . . . You gojnto the.country, and find the carts wandering aloug the endless roads an:l lanes, all the peasants goods in a cart, his chairs, his' tables, his ikon, a cow jiied by, £Q,pe and following behind. Ask the peasant where he is going; as often as not he docs not know." . .".. " .'...

Professor Loo mini Hill, In a -lecture on ".Gas. Poisoning," before tlic Medical Society of London, said that "owing to the enormous ventilating power. of the atm'o-' sphere, there was -ntrTcason - to fear .that the Zeppelins would drop poison bombs on London. The searo about poiaorp ■bombs Which was prevalent in London some-months" back was unreasonable, and the l sale--of be worse than useless In a real emergency," was nothing more tlinji a gigantic fraud,' against which the public ought to have been' warned." ■ -■