AIR RAID ON GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 19 June 1915, Page 5

AIR RAID ON GERMANY

DAMAGE SAID- TO BE GREATLY UNDERSTATED, • . AMSTERDAM, June 18. A correspondent of the "Kolhnische Volkszeitung," an eye-witness, narrates •that the raid' at Karlsruhe was worse than the-Germans . believed'. A single airman appeared at 6.30, but did- notattract attention. Soon a buzzing was heard on all sides, and more aerop-lanes appeared travelling at high, speed'. A crowd .gathered, assuming that the machines were German. Then motor • horns and steam sirens hooted out danger signals and the anti-aircraft guns opened fire. ' ~, The aeroplanes spared no .part 01 the city, and .nerve-shattering crashes followed each other quickly. The inhabitants in blind' panic fled, into houses and cellars, leaving the dead: and "wounded where they had fallen. ( Some of the greatest havoc occurred near the Pondel Platz and the Karlfriedrichstrasse, where seven persons were jkilled'. , The airmen disappeared at eight o'clock, and' slowly the inhabitants ventured' out and gathered at the spots where people had been killed. TARDY RETALIATION. PARIS, June 17. There is great satisfaction in France at the bombardment of Karlsruhe, as a tardy and fitting repi-y to the countless German attacks on unprotected towns. THE CASUALTIES. LONDON, June 18. The "Lokalanzeiger" states that seven men, seven women, and girls, and four schoolboys were (killed at Ivarlsru'he. Seventy-three were wounded. THE KAISER "DISTRESSED." "POOR INNOCENT VICTIMS/' (Rec. June 19, 8.45 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, June 18. The Kaiser telegraphed the Grand Duke of Baden his deep indignation at the wicked attack on his beloved Karlsruhe. The inculsion of poor innocent victims among civilians greatly distressed him.-