RIVAL AIRMEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2414, 20 March 1915, Page 7

RIVAL AIRMEN

FRENCH & GERMAN AVIATORS DROP BOMBS Paris, Match 18. A French aviator bombarded the Conflaus railway station, in French Lorraine, twenty miles east of Verdun. SCHOOLGIRLS KILLED. REPORT FROM BERLIN. Amsterdam, March 18.' An official message from Berlin states that four French airmen dropped bomb' on Schlettstadt School, killing two girls and wounding ten. As a reply, Calais was bombarded by the heaviest bombs. CALAIS BOMBED. SEVEN PERSONS KILLED. (Rec. March 19, 8.5 p.m.) Paris, March 19. Official.—A Zoppeliu bombed Calais and killed seven employees at the railway station, but caused little damage to property. [A message from the High Commissioner confirms this.j FULLER DETAILS. (Rec. March 19, 9.35 p.m.) London", March 19. liid "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Calais states that the Zeppelin arrived at midnight, and the town was immediately darkened and quick-firers manned, but the searchlights were unable to penetrate the fog. Bombs fell for eighteen minutes, and were mostly incendiary. Only one was effective. It fell on railway carriages, where mechanics were sleeping, and the carriages were soon ablaze. Seven were killed, their heads and limbs being blown off. Nine were extricated alive. Ai&ther bomb pierced the vault arid transcept of the Notre Dame Cathedral, a third damaged the Lamoreq Hospital. The tracks were blazing with petroleum where the bombs fell, and were visible for an hour after the Zeppelin loft. A TAUBE DROPS BOMBS. WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED. . (Rec. March 20, 1.50 a.m.) Paris, March 19. A Taube dropped eleven bombs and killed a woman, three children, two soldiers, and two others and wounded seven children and thirteen others.