"ENGLISH AIRMAN HAS DONE IT"

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 March 1916, Page 3

"ENGLISH AIRMAN HAS DONE IT"

EXPLOSION AT LILLiE AMMUNITION STORE. Amsterdam, January 20. A graphic description of the terrible results of the explosion at the Gorman ammunition store near Lille, which was mentioned in the German communique of January 12th, is told by fcferr Karl Keener, correspondent of tho

"Lo-kal Anzeiger.'' Hen* K-osnor wits • staying at an hote« at Jville, whicli was partly occupied by the German army staff. "At -t.30 a.m.." he writes, "a hurricane disturbed my rest. My lied was lifted up and came down n little further away. The whole house shook so that my watch fell trom the innr'A>topped t:iblc to the ground. Suddenly all three windmvs were flung wide open the curtains fluttered, and at the feme time Uieiv wns n terrific n:r\r and n\eii the crash of glass and masonry, as it n. gi;mt in hie mad ni#e -were smashing thousan<]is of windows. "Aly first thought was--'Now one 01 those' big .s : !ie«ls luivo laudixli in the 'house.' "MUGHTGN-ED AV-OLAFICN CRIBD." ":1 uprnng to the oWfric swin-Ji bill there was (inly a short nns'li and everything was dark agniti. lOv.er.vwheie in tho neishljourhoo(! one hoard the noi.se

of clashing glass. The whole house was wide awake. .Doors were opened relate, for as a rule, oargains are desperate extravagances, and the women nvho aro economical by force of cdrouinfctrinte.s andi not- by inclination do wel? to avoid them. Oni> ihess up to date is wortOi three just out of date to the woman who has to go about fashionably dressed, Whether she will ior not. A hur riuiniher of second-class houses are soiling their niodole cheaply because, they do not want to keep a lot of more or useless stock, and there are many little silk .afternoon frocks to be .bought which women may take with confidence. Tfiey are quite fresh and ■have not boon worn Ity anyone, as in these smaller houses even the one in<uuiGcjiun who showed tlio models Ims and daniniod again. Some frigihteued women cried. I reflected that this was no aerial bomb. I knew thorn from experience and against shel'wkof heavy caliibro a. celilar wouldi be of no use. The. best would be to wait and see, and J went to bed again. "That terrific roar, the cause of which I did not know! N'o repetition. Only the tow thundering of taraway field guns hammering through the night." Bome Jjours later Hcrr Rusner saw the destructions. Tens of thousands of broken windows and cxeitedi groups of residents in the streets all sliouting. One cried: "An English airman lias hit the ammunition depot." Another: "It was an who did it." Later lierr llosncr learned that the accident happened on the soutliern ramparts of Lille in a casemate where the ammunition ol one ot the pioneer detaciunentis were storedi. 'rjie guard of German Landsturni men were killed. Houses on both sides of the Rue do Doiiai vii'i-fi razed to the ground. Uherc once were workmen's dwellings there was nobbing olse but wreckage.— Ueuter.