BOMBS FROM THE AIR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12754, 4 May 1912, Page 5

BOMBS FROM THE AIR.

(Press Assn.—By Telegraph.— Copyright.) ... ROME, May 3. Dirigibles made, a reconnaissance of the Turkish camps, and 30 bombs were dropped at Axizia and a dozen at Sueni Ben Aden. Much damage was done.

GRAPHIC NARRATIVE

Mr H. C. Seppings Wright, the Central News War correspondent, in' a message despatched from the Turkish army headquarters .at Suani-ben-Aden, Tripoli, sa,ys:—. Owing to heavy storms, any movement by the Turkish forces has been impossible for several days. The enemy ? s dirigibles yesterday again came into action, two' airships from Tripoli working westwards oyer our lines and dropping bombs as they proceeded. They halted over Zanzur, and a bomb was dropped into that village which killed four persons and wounded ten, all of them noh r combatants. The dirigibles then turned towards Azizia, the headquarters of Nesciat Bey, and later turned and came : baok directly over our camp, but ;t^je heavy rifle fire of the Arabs, who, considering the difficulties, made good practice, caused them to swerve off again m the direction of Tripoli. A mimfrel':'" of our wounded were brought m yesterday evening on camels, together Vwitty, a quantity of en trenching tools, camp' equipment, Vtiid wire entanglement- cap-, tured by'^rab raiders m a night attack commanded by , the .Arab Sheik Baroni. . To-day the two Italian dirigibles, again* " visited us, coming direct to our camp, from Tripoli, and marking their path . with the blue .;'• smoke of 'exploding bombs. Slowly the two ships closed;'.' right over iis. Ther.e,.; wajs,. a; , monieiit'a" supenso, and then came a faint singing' sound, gradually becoming louder, until,; with a great crash, the first bomb bursty fifty yards away from where I was . standing with my camera, m company with Major Paget, of Paget's Horse. , The scene Avas exciting enough, but there was' no panic, and, when 1 had made sure of my photograph, (Paget and I vsallied forth to- collect the f moments of the aerial missile. ' Within. : the next ten minutes nine more bombs were dipped, and the shrapnel bullets they* con; tamed sang their death song about us.' A tenth, bomb fell close 'to the Red Crescent hospital. A little baby was killed m. its mother's sight, and a boy was wounded, by a shrapnel bullet. The ■_, Vourided AvereU'ldoked after by Dr. Beshir Bey, of the Red Crescent ser : \vioe, whope tent wAs. pierced m ten places byl shrapnel bullets'. "Altogether • thirty bombs-w ere thrown before the airships sheered .off, -but four of them failed to explode. .»" "'