THE AIR RAIDS

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13512, 19 June 1917, Page 5

THE AIR RAIDS

CROWDED INDIGNATION MEETING IN LONDON. GOVERNMENT CALLED ON TO INITIATE CEASELESS AIR ATTACKS ON GERMAN CITIES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Associatioa.) Received June 18, 8.40 p.m. LONDON, June 18. A crowded meeting in the London Opera House, at which the Lord Mayor presided, resolved that systematic ruthless reprisals were the only means of bringing home to Germany and her people the inhumanity and cruelty of the dastardly criminal air raids, and called on the Government to initiate immediately a policy of ceaseless attacks on German cities. ALL THE CREW OF THE DESTROYED RAIDER PERISH. (United Service.) Received June 19, 1.10 a.m. LONDON, June 18. The Zeppelin crew all perished. The mangled bodies of six who jumped from the wreck were scattered in the adjacent fields. It is believed that eight or ten remain in the wreckage. Eye-witnesses watched the Zeppelin for 40 minutes. It was apparently winged by the anti-aircraft guns, and three aeroplanes then approached. The last and fastest seemed to intend to ram the airship, but instead climbed over it, peppering its whole length, splendidly doing clean work. The airship, which was afire frbm end to end, drifted slowly downward.