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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 March 1916, Page 3

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(Received) This Day 8.15 a.m.) THE SEAPLANE RAID. London. March 20. When the seaplane raid took place tlie 'peopij of Dover and Deal left their dinner tables, rusned out and witnesed a thrilling fight. The aeroplanes were twisting and turning in ali directions until they fled seawards. A bomb wrecked an orphanage. The eighty child)en were huddled in the basement and had ii miraculous escape; only a sister was injured. The saddest feature occurred at Ramsgato where a party of children were going to Sunday school) when a b:;mib drooped in their midst and killed) four and wounded nine. It wrecked a motor near oy killing the driver. A bomb dropped in a yard of a cottage, blowing in the rear premises. The famiiy ol six hint-been watching the raider and had;'just returned indoors, but all were unscathed. - Lieutenant Bone, is'aged 27... lie was a lieutenant in the navy, serving four years and lias been for two years an aviator. His machine outstripp; ; all the other and he returned unharmed. , - - A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE. Home, March 20. The Chamber oi Deputies passed a. vote of confidence in the Government by 394 to 61. GREEK GOVERNMENT SHORT OF CASH. The Daily Mail says that the Athens Government is greatly embarrassed owing to kick-of money, and the store in its coffers is exhausted because oi the continuance of mobilization. . It unable to pay the civil servants and even the telegraph messengers are unpaid. The wives of soldiers are demonstrating outside tlie Government offices demanding *i pittance. GEIXEiRAL HERTZOG'.S MOTION / DENOUNCED. Capetown, March 20. teir Thomas Smarbt, in denouncing General Hertzog's motion in the Assembly, refusing a vote for war purposes alludied to the contributions from other dominions. General Botha and Mr Madeley. a Labor member deounced the motion and it was withdrawn. A similar motion appitying to East Africa was largely defeated.