AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 17 June 1915, Page 5

AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

THE RAID ON KARLSRUHE

TWENTY-THREE AREOPLASEES

ENGAGED.

MANY FIRES CAUSED.

ALL BUT TWO MEN RETURN

SAFELY.

PARIS, Jiime 116

Official.—As a reprisal to the bombardment of French and British itowns, we sent twenty-three aeroplanes :to Karlsruhe, and they dropped 130 projectiles on the castle, an arms factory and the railway station. Many fires were seen and inhere was great panic at the station, from where trains were hastily despatched < eastward?. The enemy vigorously shelled the squadron at Zabern, Strasbirrg, Rastall and Karlsruhe, on the 'outward journey, and at Blamoni, Fhateburg and Zabern on the homeward journey. All except two men returned safely. LONDON, June 16. The airmen were over KarTsriihe for 105 minutes. The central districts near the castle suffered most. (Karlsruhe is the capital of Baden, and is sixty miles east of the 'Rhine.) AMSTERDAM, June Tl6. A German official report says :a 'hostile air squadron bombed the unfortified town of Karlsruhet Eleven civilians were killed and isix were wounded. One of our warplanes brought down an enemy aeroplane, the occupants of which were killed.