Air Raid Murders.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 1372869, 17 September 1917, Page 7

Air Raid Murders.

ONE GERMAN PAPER ASHAMED OF SENSELESS SLAUGHTER.

Amid the general rejoicing of the German Press of the “success” of the air raid on East London, one newspaper, “ Volkswacht,” of Breslau, raised its voice'in angry protest. After saying it deplored the raid none the loss because it happened in London, it wnt on. to declare: “German airmen who were sent out to bombard military and transport depots of the enemy capital dropped their devastating bombs from a height of .‘3OOO metres on to a school and other populated points of the City. The result is 10-1 people killed, 154 severely wounded, .1 tit) slightly hurt, and 130 children killed and injured. Horror must lay hold of one when one pictures, even at this distance,/when happened when a bomb fell o» the class of children and killed ten on the spot, injuring and throwing others down. One would collapse with those mothers who thus found their little ones again —mothers whose husbands mostly likely are facing the enemy. “Scarcely imaginable is the anger which has been caused by such happening. Our English •omradcs” — “Volkswacht,” as can be imagined, is Socialist —“have no easy task to go to Stockholm from an England enraged by such acts, and consult with Socialists of a hostile country. It is a wonder they were not lynched and torn to pieces tit the time of such an outrage.”