MURDERED BY GERMAN AIR-RAIDERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2479, 4 June 1915, Page 5

MURDERED BY GERMAN AIR-RAIDERS

RECENT VISIT OF THE INCENDIARIESTHE CORONER'S INQUEST London, June 2. At the inquest on a man and his wife, killed in the last Zeppelin raid, a verdict ctf murder by some agent of a hostile folrce was returned._ The couple were foiund, with their nightclotbes burned off, kneeling beside their lied in an atfcitiude of prayer. They had been suffocated. Two bombs wort' found in a basement, one of which had not exploded. It was filled with tliemite. At the second inquest, regarding fhe death of a girl of tliree, who bad been burnt, to death, evidence was niven lhat u bomb crashed into the children's bed. Four other children were rescued, badly burned. but. the fifth was lclt. Hie father believing thai all had bcwi saved. A doeior sai'l thai death was due to KM novation. Two Ha-lies of h:hl wen? ?"on. and in'- limi:ir en'iulii) fi iitini'-rliat n lv, as well as tho wootten blocks Bavins the

street. Remnants of the bombs which t] wore afterwards picked up consisted of a s metal framework hound with tarred tl rope. s ] The Coroner said that the composi- 61 tion of which the bombs were made would give an enormous heat, said to bo 5000 degrees. GERMAN STORY OF RAID ON h LONDON. BOMBS THROWN ON DOCKS AND LONDON WHARVES. Amsterdam, Juna 2. ?i A German communique states: "As t'e a reprisal for the raid on Ludwigs- ai hafen, we threw numerous bombs on tl the wharves and docks in London last G night. It "Enemy airmen last night bombarded li ! Ostcnd, damaging some houses." BABY KILLERS IN POLAND. AIR BOMB EXPLODES IN' A PlCTl.'l'!li THEATRE. Warsaw, .June '2. A biiinb dropped by a Ci-niian aero- c pla I(} M liiel; .1 kinema theatre <>! f:, r - I u nrliir. Poland. when il was full of pen- f, pi". The bund) pierced the roof and r ) exploded. I.dliiu; six persons and woundi'V iwouty-fivc, mostly women and chil- p, rfrcu.