ZEPPELIN RAID.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16992, 20 October 1915, Page 7

ZEPPELIN RAID.

INQUEST OH VICTIMS.

A FATHER'S PROTEST.

By Telegraph.—Press Aopociaticn.—Copyright LONDON, October 18.

An inquest was held on the bodies of an additional twonty-threo Zeppelin victims, all killed in one London area.

A railway goods mau was killed while eutering a restaurant, both thighs being broken. His wife, though beside him, was unhurt. Another man outside the same house was cut through the neck by broken glass and killed. A'woman nearby had the lower part of her spine smashed. Another bom.b struck a motor-bus, killing the driver, the conductor and a special constable. A house decorator, who was badly injured and taken to a hospital, insisted on the doctor first attending the man next to him. Both succumbed in a few hours.

The coroner, summing up. suggested that the jury should refrain from expressing indignant feelings in their verdict.

The father of ono victim protested that his son had been killed by the Kaiser’s order. “ I summon the Kaiser,” said he, " to meet me before the Judgment Seat of God and answer for the death of niv son and of those other twenty-two poor people!” The verdict was that the deaths were the result of an air raid. PROPOSED REPRISALS. LORD BRYCE OBJECTS. CONAN DOYLE’S VIEWS. “ Times ” and Sydney “ Sun ” Services. (Received October 19, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. October 19. Lord Bryce, in a letter, protests against the public d mauds for antiZeppelin reprisals ; n the form of. dron ping bombs on civilians. Britain, he .aystill maintains, her respect for the iiaguo Convention. To initiate sav agery is to lower us to the level of the Germans. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in a letter, justifies the laying of oertain towns in Germany in ruins in order to compei a cessation of the Zppelin attacks.