IN THE AIR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1914, Page 7

IN THE AIR

SOME THRILLING STORIES, SKILFUL BOMB-DROPPING. (Received December 11, 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, 10th December. A Belgian aviator dropped bombs- on a German transport column at Ostend, destroying three motor lorries and throwing the column into confusion. Then he flew to Bruges, and dropped bombs on a detachment of cavalry, doing much damage. The Germans fired, severing the control wires, and the aviator vol-planed and landed in the floods at Ramscappelle. He waded ashore and escaped. A German aeroplane dropped bombs at Hazebrouck, killing six civilians ana seven soldiers, and wounding twelve. English aeroplanes pursued and brought down a Gorman Taube monoplane at Ypres. The officer and pilot were riddled with bulets. AMSTERDAM, 10th December. The Germans at Bruges shot a Frenchman, who was accused of furnishing the Allies with the location oT petrol depots Aviators have recently developed amazing skill in dropping bombs on depots. Though the Germans shift them hither and thither, they aro never safe from aeroplane attack. A BOLT FROM THE BLUE. PARIS, 10th December. A Munich message states that the Bavarian General Yon Meyer was killed stepping out of a motor-car. He was transfixed by a steel dart dropped from a hostile aeroplane. BROKEN LAWS OF WARFARE. SYDNEY, 10th December. Captain Oswald Watt, formerly of Sydney, describing his experiences as a French military airman, says that the Germans have broken practically all the laws of civilised warfare. GERMAN ATROCITIES PRECONCEIVED SYSTEM OF THREATS. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES) LONDON, 9th December. The Belgian Commission, replying to German denials of atrocities committed in the cities, states that in their official proclamations the German commanders threatened with fire and sword and heavy fines and the shooting of hostages unless the towns surrendered and the j German terms were observed. The Commission declares that the orders " reveal the application of a preconceived system." (PRESS ASSOCIATION.) FOR CREMATION TRAINLOADS OF GERMAN DEAD. (Received December 11, 10 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, 10th December. Trainloads of corpses continue to be despatched from Belgium eastwards for cremation. Some of them are being , taken to the German glass furnaces. AMSTERDAM, 10th December A train of forty carriages, conveying fifteen hundred wounded, was derailed betwren Gemmenicht and Aix-la-Chap-pelle (south of Dutch Limburg). Fifty were killed, and many injured. THE KAISER'S ILLNESS CHILL CAUGHT WHILE VISITING AUSTRIAN EMPEROR. AMSTERDAM*, 10th December. ' The Kaiser caught a chill during a secret visit to the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria He refused to take precautions, and secretly returned to Berlin at midnight on Thursday. j