PANIC AT ESSEN
THE SWINE ARE AT IT."
"GOD HELP US."
(Received July 11, 1.45 p . m ) AMSTERDAM, July 10. lwo Dutch factory foremen from Essen state that violent bomb reports •were heard in the morning, and people in their nightgowns rushed into the streets crying -"The swine are at it bombing Krupps. God help us." The police and soldiers in motor cars rushed -along the streets, shouting through megaphones, "There is no danger; go to bed," r but the people could not be calmed. They saw a large fire start near Krupps. Bombs were also dropped in many parts of Western Germany, and more than two hundred casualties were qaused, ond "great military damage •done.
Other accounts of the Essen raid state that there was a panic among the workmen and several bombs exploded inside -the factory.
Towns along the Rhine are begging headquarters to protect them and to ■discontinue attacks.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 11 July 1917, Page 7
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152PANIC AT ESSEN Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 11 July 1917, Page 7
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