THE REPRISAL RAID ON FREIBURG
GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. . London, April. 16. A ..Berlin, official. message states: "Twenty-three: aeroplanes attacked Freiburg on Saturday. Eleven persons were killed arid twenty-seven injured. The "university was considerably damaged, arid- the municipal theatre,, the institutes, and the infirmaries were attacked. Three British aeroplanes were brought down, and the leader of-the 'attack, a British lieutenant-colonel, was According to his statements and. a fly-sheet thrown down, the attack was a reprisal for'tlie torpedoing of the hospital ship Gloucester Castle." In vigorous_ language the . message combats such justification, 'and declares that Britain rirust take the. consequences of despising Germany's warning' against tlie misuse of hospital Ships. A revengeful attack ' upon an open town, in whicli there' was, no military import or object, is cheap glory.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assh.-Beuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3057, 19 April 1917, Page 5
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