FRENCH AIR RAID ON LUDWIGSHAFEN.
EIGHTY BOMBS DROPPED ON CHLORIDE FACTOBIES.
•}' i-,•i •• ... ; :, v - . Paris, May 28. x.-, French .airmen, dropped 49 projectiles on ; the.Ludwigshafen munitions factory, in the Bavarian palatinate,' and 36 on the factory at Oppau, two miles , away. ; _ Enormous , fires and' clouds of yellow smoke were seen. ' Great masses of clouds enshrouded Ludwigshafen and Oppau. , -"V All the aeroplanes returned . except l one, which . was apparently hit, and descended normally, then bursting into flames.: It is. believed that the occupants burnt it to prevent the '.Germans securing the machine. t ».. > '• , f --. . -. ..«• I'* . - * ' " 'i;«-A -y> » The German version of the Ludwigshafen raid/states', that six ' civilians were killed and nine wounded. ;- r A ! great number of bombs fell on the soda works, killing five and wounding fifteen, but work was not interrupted by the explosions. l >• : - v.", Ludwigshafen was one of the largest manufactories .• of chloride. The workers were recently increased from .10,000 to 20,000 ; filling- ; cylinders with gas for the poison clouds used by the Germans. "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15931, 31 May 1915, Page 7
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