WAR IN THE AIR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16870, 31 May 1915, Page 8

WAR IN THE AIR.

THE RAID ON LUDWIGSHAFEN. ALLIES’ AIRMEN DAMAGE ENEMY’S WORKS. GREAT POISONOUS GAS FACTORIES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. PARIS, May 28. Allied airmen dropped forty-nine projectiles on the Ludwigshafon factory, and thirty-six on the factory at Oppau, three kilometres away. Enormous fires broke out, and yellow smoke in great masses enshrouded both places. All the aeroplanes returned except one, which was apparently hit. It descended' normally, and was seen to burst into flames. It is believed that the occupants burnt it to prevent the Germans securing possession. Lud" igtliaf'en, bombed by Allied aviators, was one o t the largest manufactories of chloride. The number of workers was recently increased from ten thousand to twenty thusand, their principal employment being the tilling of cylinders. THE GERMAN VERSION. “WORK NOT INTERRUPTED.” AMSTERDAM, May 28. The German version of tho Ludy/igshai'en raid states that six civilians were killed and nine wotyided. A great number of bombs fell on the soda works, kill.ng five and wounding fifteen, but work was not interrupted. ITALIAN AIRMEN BUSY. BOMB AUSTRIAN RAILWAY. ROME, May 28. The following official report has been issued : A squadron of our airmen bombed the railway line from Trieste to Nabresina, interrupting communications, and returned unharmed, despite a violent artillery and rede lire. THE SOUTHEND RAID. DEATH OF A VICTIM. LONDON, May 28. Tho child who was injured when a Zeppelin dropped bombs at Southend has succumbed to its injuries. ANTI-AIRCRAFT SHELL. KILLS A LADY. (Received May 30. 11 a.in.) LONDON. May 29. At the iuquest on the Southend victims it was shown that an anti-aircraft shell killed a lady. BRUSH AIRE EM FLOW UP AMMINITIIN tftPOT. A HUNDRED GERMANS KILLED. (Received May 30. 11 a.m.) PARIS, May 29. British aviators blew up an ammunition depot at Pcrlcapelle. A hundred Germans were killed and seventy-five wbunded. AIRCRAFT AT VENICE. DRIVEN AWAY BY ARTILLERY. PARIS, May 29. Two Ta u lie aeroplanes bombed St Mark's Square. Venice. The bombs fell ir. the water. Artillery drove off the raiders. AUSTRIAN CLAIMS. DAMAGE AT VENICE. (Received May 31, 12.1-5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, May 29. A Vienna official report declares that several naval a rmen again threw many bombs at Venice, especially ou the er dial. There wore many lives and explosions.