REPRISAL AIR RAID.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16895, 6 July 1918, Page 9

REPRISAL AIR RAID.

DAIMLER WORKS BOMBED.

Tie Huns put up a lively display of fireworks as we approached, and they appeared to have had warning, for the streets were almost deserted and the factory chimneys wero almost smokeless, writes Lieut. McKenzie, of the R.F.C., in the San Francisco Chronicle, in describing a recent air attack on Stuttgart. At one end of the town was the great Daimler motor factory; at another the waterworks; and dotted at intervals were the military barracks, the railway station, and many sidings, besides numerous factories and other places of military value.

All these were singled out for attack and to reach them in a way that would render failure impossible, our men had to pick their way between the enemy's guns. To ride such a barrage as the Germans put up that day required great nerve. One of our men was right over the Daimler works. Shells were bursting below, above, and on each side of him. It seemed that if he moved a fraction of an inch he. was bound to be hit, so close .was tho fire. I could see the figure of the airman leaning forward in his seat in the middle of this inferno, as though he were going to drop a handful of tracts to a seaside crowd. Something went over the side of his machine, and almost at the same time a grea.t bright glare rose from the middle of the Daimler works.