THE ZEPPELIN RAID

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16519, 20 October 1915, Page 5

THE ZEPPELIN RAID

ADDITIONAL INQUESTS. FATHER'S DRAMATIC ARRAIGN- : • MENT,' LONDON, October 18. At the inquest on an additional '23 Zeppelin victims, all in one London area, the evidence showed that a railway goodsman was killed when entering a restaurant. Both his thighs were broken. His wife was beside him, but was not hurt. Another man outside the same house was cut' through the neck with broken glass and killed. A woman near by had the lower part of her spine smashed. Another bomb struck a motor bus, killing the driver, the conductor, and a special constable. A house decorator, who was badly injured, was taken to hospital, where he insisted on the doctor,first attending the man next to him. Both succumbed in a few hours. The Coroner, in summing up, suggested that the jury refrain from expressing indignant feelings in their verdict, but the father of one victim protested that his son had been killed by the 1 Kaiser's orders. "I summon the Kaiser," said he, "to meet me before the judgment seat of God and answer for the .death of my eon and of those other 22 poor people." The verdict was that the deaths were the result of an air raid. SUGGESTED REPRISALS. VIEWS OF PUBLIC MEN. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, October 18. (Received Oct. 19, at 5.5 p.m.)

Lord Bryce, in a letter, protests against the public demands for anti-Zeppelin reprisals for dropping bombs on civilians. Great Britain still stands respecting The Hague Convention, and to initiate savagery would .lower us to the level of the Germans.

Sir A. Conan Doyle considers the Allies would be justified in laying certain, towns in Germany in ruins in order to compel a cessation\of the Zeppelin attacks.