COBLENZ RAIDED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 151, 15 March 1918, Page 5

COBLENZ RAIDED

FACTORIES, STATION, AND BARRACKS BOMBED LARGE EXPLOSION AND FIRES OBSERVED London, March 13. fcur Douglas Haig reports: "Our aircraft dropped a ton of bombs on factories, the station, and barracks at, Coblenz (in Germany). Bursts were seen on all the objectives, causing two firos, and a very explosion. was observed at a, building in the southwest corner. l'W hostile machines were encountered, but all ours roturn-od."—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Iteuter. [Coblenz is tho capital of Ilhenish Prussia, fifty-six miles south-south, east of Cologne, afc the junction of the Rhino and Jloselle. It is very strongly fortified.]

REPRISALS AGAINSTJRITAIN URGED RAID ON fiTOTTGART VERY SUCQESSFIL. Basic, March 13. Tho Burgomaster of Stuttgart has made urgent representations to Von Hiudenburg, calling upon him for instant reprisals against Britain. Accounts in German newspapers show that the raid on Stuttgart was ono of tho most successful attacks known. It lasted twenty minutes, bombs crashing into houses, and fires wore started in wiaely-separatcd parts of the city.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.lleuter.

THE RAIDON YORKSHIRE VERY LITTLE DAMAGE DONE. London, Jlaroh 13. The Press Bureau states: German airships attacked places on the Yorkshire coast in the evening. A few bombs were dropped a short distance inland.

Three onemy airships participated in tho raid. Only ono approached a dofended locality; namely, Hull. It dropped four bombs, which demolished a house, and a woman died of shock. The other airships wandered for hours in reinoto districts at great altitudes. They unloaded bombs in open country, and proceeded to sea. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reutor.

RAID ON THE ENGLISH COAST (Rec. March 14, 11.30 p.m.) Vancouver, March 13. Aeroplanes raided the north-east coast of England.—Router.

. ! NAPLES BOMBED AGAIN TWO OLD'CHURCHES DESTROYED. Rome, March 13. Naples was bombed by a single airship, which come from Lagosta Island. Twenty bombs fell from a height of twelve thousand feet. Tho old churches of St. Bridget and St. Nioholas were destroyed.—Aus.N.Z. Coble ASsn.-Reutcr.