GREAT SENSATION CAUSED
AMSTERDAM, 18th June. A correspondent of the Kolnische Yolks Zeitung, an eye-witness, narrates that the laid on Karlsruhe was worse than the Germans believed. A single airman appeared at 6.30, and did not attract attention. Soon a buzzing was heard on all sides and moie aeioplanes appeared, travelling at a high speed. A crowd gathered, assuming that the machines were German. Then motor-horns and steam syrens hooted out danger signals, and antiaircraft guns opened fire. The aeioplanes spared no jiait of the city. Xcn e-slmttering crashes followed cac'i ol he v quickly. The inhabitant!}, blind witji paiiicj fled
to houses and cellars, leaving the dead and wounded where they had fallen. Some of the greatest havoc was wrought near Rondelplatz and Karl Friedrichstrasse where seven people were killed. The airmen disappeared at 8 o'clock, and slowly the inhabitants ventured out aaid gathered at the spots where people had been killed. The Lokal Anzeiger states that eleven men, seven women and girls, and four schoolboys were killed at Karlsruhe, and seventy-three people were wounded.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 144, 19 June 1915, Page 5
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