ARSENAL BOMBED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14441, 30 October 1917, Page 3

ARSENAL BOMBED.

BRITISH RAID SUCCEEDS. y ■ LONDON, October 19. The Amsterdam Telegraal states thatthe British bombing 'raid 1 on Roulers' .arsenal, was ope of -the most dramatic and terrible episodes m tho Flanders fighting. ...... ■„'--:• - - . The ' arsenal is «df .several stories, quartering many 'German "troops. The airmen threw (incendiary bombs, perietrat-' ing the .root.' -Great' columns Of flame' burst .out, and "the Germans fled screaming and gesticulating. "The names lick-; ed up the staircases^ The wounded and dying shrieked and' groaned, some became -demented -and jumped out of the; -windows.; Tlie •_ airmen descended and used .their anachiiie*guns on those whowere, attempting -to* 'escape. ' ; Tlie fire was visible for miles", and it* appeared- as if the -whole -of _*t6tfler s was aflame.. It- is reported -that 'the slaiigh-: ter was great* The-town -has - been -shut,* until all^ttraces' of the disaster have been removed., .v - y-y- „-... • The Admiralty reports 'that naval air-i craft - 1 were engaged- ■m a' - considerable ' number of patrols yesterday. > They encountered -several enemy formations; and drovCi -down^two ._nemyy machines. One, naval machine is^miasing': Bombing .raids were.: made? on -'Bruges docks, "Varsinaere, . and Houfctave^ aerodromes.- • Xarge quantities of 'explosive were r» dropped, 'with' -good ' effect. All ' .the machines returned;