THE BABY-KILLERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 155, 3 July 1917, Page 5

THE BABY-KILLERS.

; GERMAN COMMANDER'S NAR-

RATIVE

A THRILLING DESCRIPTION

) Aust.raMan nnd N.Z. Cable Association ! (Received July 3,- 10.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 2

; The Times publishes a special cablegram from Berlin sent by the commander of the recent airraid on London. He gives a thrilling description of air lights with British aviators. He states that the German, aeroplanes flew in bursts of fiame and explosions all round. While the commander .claims that the raid was a success, he admits the j great dash and gallantry of the Briti Jhh airmen.

The itsominandeT says: "*We left home at ten In the morning jind approached tho English coast through n bank of rrtouds. Leaving Sheerness, we fiew straight towards London. Now that the J3ritish shells reach our slt'tndes we climb higher. Following the windings -of the Thames as the etoud "banlc rolls away ive see our goal—namely, London's sea of houses. Then far below appears the first of England's pursuing machines. Little clouds of cotton seemingly by magic appear in bur path. Then exploding shells "multiply Vith astonishing rapidity 'We fly through then till we see the Thames "bridcres, the Tower of Tendon, and "the Bant of "Fnjrland.

fit is row time to atrbarck. I push ■the levers find anxiously follow /"the flight of the "bombs as.they'strike. It is a ina?rn?ftceTrtyly terrific spectacle; Front mid-air tlie earth seems to rock and nouses seem to disappear in craters. Meanwhile projeetfles from the defence guns are exploding and Fplutt'erinjr atl round- ■.!■% Our ''.escape seems miraenlous. ■ English Siers sud-' I denly appear ahead, "blocking .out rerI, turn. ,■> - Aeroplanes' appe,a|.1 bit' each' side,, above.. xnA (Deldw; • ,ss, .ali start firing the • noise ;' .is.'^riiic'. -The machines. open' fire at '200 metrer, .^el^giishmaTi-is particularly.brave and : tpnaeiens' j9!« .gives'tiBv no' rest a-jid- keeps up an? inieesSant Tunriing. fire.-; for- ten -min)utes. his :"bullets showering all rbrmd bur^ heads and cnttjttg tKrousfr; ;the pltvn«s till tit;: last a whole sheaf jpf shots enters liis body and his machine falls." '•".:'

The narrative is' a remarkable admission of the tertifit nature of the JJrtisb dp-fence fire, showinp; that the 'ange was aornrate and that British :iviators in lnrge numbers quickly mount to repel attacksThe n inative does not claim -military works as objectives.