THE COBLENZ RAID

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 152, 16 March 1918, Page 7

THE COBLENZ RAID

TERRIFIC RESULTS FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS - Amsterdam, March 14. The raid on Coblenz had terrific results. The city is completely isolated and nobody is allowed to leavo or enter. Two munition factories are reported to be burning, and vast quantities of explosives are continunlly exploding— Aus:-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' ' g

AIR FIGHT OVER NORTH SEA THREE GERMAN AEROPLANES DESTROYED. . . London, March 14. lhp British in an air tight over tho North Sea destroyed throe Gorman aeroplanes.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ENGAGEMENT- LASTED "THIRTY ' .MINUTES. ■ • (Rec. March 15, 10.15 p.m.) London, March 14. The Admiralty reports: "Two seaplanes on Tuesday attacked five enemy aircraft above the southern part of tho North Sea. They shot down and destroyed ono enemy two-seater machine, killed the observer of a second machine, and drovo down on the water another seaplane. The engagement lasted thirty minutes, and only terminated when tho British airmen had expended their ammunition. Our machines returned."—Aus.-N.Z, Cablo Assn.-Reuter;

HARTLEPOOL BOMBED BY AIRSHIP ahasty'raid. . / London, March 14. The (Press Bureau reports :—"One airship crossed tho coast last' night and dropped four bombs, on Hartlepool, demolishing six dwelling-houses and dam r aging thirty. The airship operated at a great altitude, and only remained overhead a few minutes. Tho remainder of the bombs appear to have fallen in the so.v

"The casualties were:—Killed, one man, one woman, and three children; injured, three men, one woman, and five children."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.Reuter.

THE PARIS DISASTER IMPROVING THE DEFENCES O'F THE CITY. Paris, March 14. Twenty-nine women and thirty children were killed in tho tube panic. Theatros are not now allowed to give performances in the evening unless airshelters are availablo nearby. The authorities arc overhauling all the arrangements for combating air raids on the capital.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. fit was reported on Thursday that a panic occurred at the entrance, of a raid shelter during the air raid on Paris, resulting in 66 persons being suffocated or trampled to death.]