DEATH ROLL IN RECENT AIR RAID.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13930, 12 July 1917, Page 5

DEATH ROLL IN RECENT AIR RAID.

FORTY-THREE KILLED AND NEARLY TWO HUNDRED INJURED. 0 (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) LONDON, .July 10. The Press Bureau reports: The casualties as the result of Saturday 's air raid now number : KILLED: Men ~ '. 30 Women ',.,.. 8 Children . 5 INJURED : Men 98 Women , 4G Children 53 *' '■ ■■WHIM innj FRENCH AIRMAN'S BRILLIANT RAID ON ESSEN. ATTACKS CAUSE GERMANS TO DEMAND CESSATION OF GERMAN RAIDS.

(Australian and New Zc-aland Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, "'July 10. Warnings of a great air raid were sent broadcast in Germany, and the lights were extinguished,in all the factories, the workers ' • fleeing to (lie cellars. There is intense anxiety among the civilians of the bombed towns, who fear further raids. • i,. ~.■ ■ '..':. (Australian and New' Zealand CaMe Association.) , ! ':;■',..;.';';..' v. ; , ' ' "''.";■ •■••<■• ■ Flight-Lieutenant Gallois, the hero of the bombardment of Essen, gives a thrilling narrative. He made a 75 kilometres flight, lasting seven hours. He was heavily bombarded while crossing the German lines. Passing Metz he struck the Rhine, and followed it until he reached Coblenz. On his northward flight the route was illuminated by the fires of hundreds of factories, which increased in • number until he reached Essen, which was unmistakable with its hundreds upon hundreds of furnaces. Electing the point where the factories were densest, he dropped ten bombs, and returned via the Rhine.

(Au J .?alian anil New Zesland Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, July 10. Two Dutch factory foremen from Essen state that violent bomb reports occurred at three o'clock in the morning, and people in their ' nightgowns rushed into the street crying: '"The swine are at it, bombing Krupps; God help us.'' The police and soldiers in motor ears rushed through the streets, shouting through megaphones: "There is no danger; go to bed." But the people could not be calmed. They saw a large fire start near Krupps. Bombs were also dropped in many parts of Western Germany, and more than two hundred casualties occurred, while great military damage was sustained. Other accounts of the Essen raid state that.there was panic among the workmen, several bombs exploding inside the factory. The towns along the Rhine are begging'headquarters to protect them and to discontinue their attacks on the French. (Australian and-New Zealand Cable'Assoeiali-";.) AMSTERDAM, July 10. A message from Berlin states that a batch of workmen at Krupps had to be discharged owing to the destruction of the buildings. Women and children fled into the country. The raid re- ■ suited in twenty-five people being killed. Hundreds were injured various localities. . The killed included five French prisoners, Forty Frenchmen were injured.