NO MILITANT OBJECTIVE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15335, 25 September 1917, Page 4

NO MILITANT OBJECTIVE.

GERMAN RAIDS ON LONDON, BOMBS AIMED AT HOSPITAL, Describing the raid by aeroplanes on. London on July 7, a correspondent of the American Associated Press states that the attack was plainly directed against the civilian population and business and financial buildings. There is no question that the Germans knew where they were, and it was not a matter of scattering explosives blindly from a great height. Why more persons were not killed is hard to explain. Thousands were in the streets in the area bombed, but probablv a much larger proportion took shelter "in the solid buildings, taught by the lesson of June .13, Among the places attacked was one of the most extensive metropolitan hospitals, on which the Red Cross flag was flying conspicuously. It escaped entirely, although several bombs' fell close to it. The day's experiences snowed that persons in solidly constructed buildings are comparatively safe, but these windows of these buildings were crowded with young clerks, determined not to miss the spectacle at whatever cost. x _The fate of the humble dwellers, m: workmen's houses was, different. They had no chance for their lives. The sight, now familiar to Londoners, of distracted, sobbing mothers, rushing about the ruins of tenements, fearing to find, and sometimes finding, the mangled bodies of their children, was the most moving incident of the raid. A ftorough investigation of the results of the raid showed that no munitions or supply establishment had been touched. Apparently none was sought, since the Germans undoubtedly knew their loca-, tions., Five minuses after the explosions ceased the streets of the district attacked, were jammed with masses of hmnanity. Fire engines, ambulances, patrol waggons, motors with nurses and doctors seemed to spring from the earth. Almost immediately waves of sightseers from the West End swept down, seemed to cdme\ in droves throughout the dav - ' _____ :