WOMEN AND BABY KILLERS
GERMAN AIR RAIDERS' CRIME HELPLESS CIVILIANS STRUCK DOWN TERRIBLE SCENES London, May -7, The German aeroplane raid'occurred in. fine weather, and the invaders flew at a great height, where they were screened by a bank of clouds. Scarcely any part, of the town escaped. At least sixty high-explosivo bombs were dropped, and the greatest damage was done in tlio crowded, shopping centre, where bodies, limbs, and the carcasses (if horses were left lying about. Several prominent citizens are included in the death roll. The invaders also visited three neighbouring towns, but did little damage, though a few wore iujured. During a breach iu the clonds the raiders were seen for i few seconds, with British airmen pursuing them and firing. It is believed they got clear of the coastline without loss. Five seaplanes attempted to laid another point, but British airmen went in pursuit, and the enemy headed across the Channel. No naval I or military damage was done. Heartrending Scenes. London, May 27. Tlie raiders attacked on two lines, with scouting machines ahead, both croups (lying- with audacious precision. Tho explosions were at first isolated, but became more frequent as the machines got more fully overhead. The bombs were not incendiary, and the din was terrific. The raiders turned and flew seaward, and dropped down bombs in an area of two hundred javds, with a final burst over one street, as if the wholo cargo of bombs had been released. Here the sight was heartrending; women pud children lay dead; others were scream-' ing in agony. Besides other places, a number ol shops crowded with customers were struck, and the casualties amongst the customers and people in the ndjomius street were very heavy. An aerial torpedo pierced several iloors ol a . large hotel before exploding, without killinganvone. A fireman who took a fire-alarm subsequently learned that his . wife, mother, and.children had been burned in the wreckage. Tn one coastal town, sixty people were killed and eighty-three injured. People nocked into the streets, to watch the arrival of the raidera, which;were 15,000 feet overhead, and suspected nothing till a shower of bombs fell in. their midst, turning the street into a shambles. The scene of tho greatest death roll was a butcher's shop, which collapsed, burying a heap of struggling and shrieking victims, fin some places whole rows Ot liouses collapsed like packs of cards. Th 6 London Press -urges instant' »e----prisals.—Aus.-N.Z. CaUe Assn. THE GERMAN VERSION, , , London, May 27. A German official message states:— "Our air squadrons dropped bombs on Dover and Folkestone, with good re-sults."—Ans.-.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3096, 29 May 1917, Page 5
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