FIENDISH OUTRAGE BY HUN AIRMEN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 218, 3 June 1918, Page 5

FIENDISH OUTRAGE BY HUN AIRMEN

BRITISH HOSPITALS BOMBED ON CORPUS CHRISTI DAY London, May 31. On (he day the Archbishop of Cologne requested the Allies to refrain from bombing the town the Germans bombed British hospitals. After dropping flares the airmen loosed huge bombs, one scoring a direct hit on a large hospital which was displaying the Red Cross prominently. The. bomb ignited and wrecked the building, in which some sisters were pinned. They were struck down in the very act of ministering to the patients.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AMEBICAN SURGEON KILLED. (Rec. June 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 31. ■When the Germans bombed the Brit:sh hospital on Thursday an American surgeon was operating on a British officer. The former was killed. The. removal of tho wounded was most difficult owing to the staircaso being demolished. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE CRITICISED (Rec. June 2, 11 p.m.) London, June 1. Replying to criticisii of the Foreign Office, Lord Robert Cecil (Under-Secre-tary) said that the whole of tho Cabinet was responsible for tho immunity of Cologne on Corpus Christi Day. It was not even proposed by the Foreign Office. Lord Cecil agreed to the decision in tho absence of military objections.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOMBS FALL IN WOMEN'S CORPS CAMP. (Rec. June 2, 11 p.m.) London, June 1. A bomb on Thursday fell on tho Women's Corps Camp in France, killing sev-eral—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AIR RAID ON PARIS BOMBS DROPPED, BUT NO VICTIMS. London, May 31.. A French official report states: "Hostile aeroplanes crossed the lines last evening, going towards Paris. Observation postti signalled the fact lo the defence batteries, which shelled (hem. The warning was givou in the city at 1(1.50 p.m., and ''nil clear" at midnight. Bombs wore dropped in tho Paris region, but there wero no victims."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Rcutcr, . (Rec. Juno 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, Juno l! A French official report states: "The first of last night's raiders did not reach Paris, but a second group dropped bombs on the capital."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Rcuter. ■ • PARIS SHELLED AT LONG "RANGE ONCORPUS CHRISTI DAY (Kec. Juno 2, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, May 31. Eighteen people wero killed or wounded by the shells from the long-range gun on Corpus Chrisli Day. One shell struck a church.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GREAT ALLIED RAID ON ZEEBRUGGE (Rec. June 2, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, May 31. Reports from tho frontier state that there was.a great Allied air raid on Zeebriigfic liwt night, with heavy gun firo and terrific expiosions, presumably from a ningazme.-'-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FRIGHTENED BY THEIR OWN AIRMEN PANIC AT MANNHEIM. Geneva, May 31. German airmeu returning lo an aerodrome caused a panic in Mannheim on Tuesday. There was a. mad rush for shelter, arid eighteen women and children were trampled (o death. Tho public bodies in the Rhine towns continue to petition the Reichstag to obtain a cessation of tho reprisal raids.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CORPUS CHRISTI DAY IN, THE RIIINF. TOWNS. (Rec. Juno 2, 5.5 p.m.) Geneva, 'May 31.. Tho "Tribune" states that, allegedly fearing air attacks, the Germans forbade Corpus Christi piocessions in the Rhine, towns. Cardinal Hartinann received a British promise through the iope, but forbade processions- in Co-logne—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.