ALLIED AIRMEN'S REPRISALS ON KARLSRUHE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 7

ALLIED AIRMEN'S REPRISALS ON KARLSRUHE.

INHABITANTS FLEE IN BLIND PANIC.

NERVE-SHATTERING CRASHES IN QUIOK SUCCESSION.

(Received Juno 18, 9.5 p.®.) f Amsterdam, June 17. A newspaper correspondent quotes an eye-witness's narrative of the raid on Karlsruhe. It wan worse than the Germans believed. A single airman appeared at 6.30. He did not attract attention. Soon a buzzing was heard on all sides, and more aeroplanes appeared at % high speed.

A crowd gathered, assuming that the machines were German. Then motor horns and seam syrens hooted out the danger signals, and anti-aircraft guns opened fire. The aeroplanes spared no part of the city. Nerve-shattering crashes followed each other in quick succession. The inhabitants fled in blind panic to houses and cellars, leaving the dead and wounded where they had fallen. Some of the greatest havoc was wrought near the Rondelplatz and the Karlfriedrich Strasse, where seven people were killed. The airmen disappeared at eight o'clock. Slowly the inhabitants ventured out and gathered at the spots where people- had been killed. 1

There is great satisfaction throughout France at the bombardment of Karlsruhe, as a tardy, but fitting, reply to the countless German attacks on unfortified towns. /

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL RAID BY ALLIES.

GERMAN POSITIONS IN FLANDERS BOMBED. (Received June 18. 8.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, June 17. Allied aeroplanes last night dropped bombs on German positions at Zeebrugge, Heyst and Knocko. Serious damage was done. The aviators escaped.