IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1917, Page 1

IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS.

TU-MPIXfi GROUND FOR BOMBS'. LONDON, August 21. Renter has been authoritatively informed In connection with the mysterious visitation of Oonnnn aeroplanes over Holland that the explanation is that they intended raiding; England lint returned owing to had weathei. As a bombing niaehine cannot a light before disposing of -' L bomb, the raiders had to get, rid of them. ll they'did so over Height in it might have resulted in the killing of Herman troops Tliev therefore waited till they note over Holland where they could kill only neutrals. AXOELB ok peace. LONDON, August Al. The story of the Arons Angels is recalled hy a present obsession of the inhabitants of drays Thurrock, Essex. The majority of tliese people believe that on several nights they have seen three Angels their wings outspread hovering over the Thames, with the word * ■Peace'’’ in a halo round their heads. The most responsible witness is unable to believe or deny the evidence of his senses . ANZAC .MEMORIAL. LONDON, August 21. deneral Royston has coinorred with tlic Commonwealth authorities and Mr. Retrain IMaekenlial. respecting the erection of a memorial to fallen Anzncs. The Suez Canal Company will provide a site on the Caijal hank Members of the Australian Light Horse regiments have already raised £SOOO towards the cost of the memorial, and the relatives of the fallen soldiers may contribute if they wish. OVERSEA AIRMEN. LONDON, Aug. 14. In the House of Commons to-day Mr, Pemberton Rilling (Independent) asked whether in view of the aptitude' for aviation shown hy Canadians Australians and South Africans, the War Office would consider the advisability of. encouraging, rather than discouraging overseas men to qualify for admission to the Flying Corps. Mr. McPherson replied that the suggestion in question was not supported by the facts. The proportion of overseas men among pilots in the Flying Corps had always been large. Every encouragement was given to them and there was actually a special commission in the Dominions collecting cadets.

AH'RI)ICR squadrons. LONDON, .September T 7. Air. Bench Thomas (Daily Mail)', describing the Gorman attacks on hospitals, states that a French .surgeon was visiting one hospital with American surgeons. They heard the, hum of aeroplanes and the company went out and saw a big plane flying .straight to the hospital. They retreated to rove A succession of crashes followed. The hospital delioed with the guttural shouts and screams of the German patients. The whole place was plunged into darkness. A Ibishlamp revealed a horrible scene. Three hundred pound bombs had made huge craters, suggesting that the raider was one of the newest air giants. The first bomb struck a wardful o! Germans, nine of whom were heaped in every altitude, in a’ horrible, fantastic deaih. It was hard work for the doctors to unravel the human material from the debris and to separate the wounded from the dead. In all their experience, they -said, they had not witnessed such a horrible scene.Other nurses and doctors came to their help. Another "ward suffered as severely as that in which the Germans were. The other hospitals were attacked the same night. DESTUOTIOX OF 1 JONS. LONDON. Aug 20 Air. Bnsly, member of the Cliainhei of Deputies and .Mayor of Lons, whom the Germans have, released from internment, says that the Germans will not fail to declare that the British artillery destroyed Lens. "But I know,” he stated, “that the enemy devastated the town. For example, they blew up the church, theatre, ißanque tie .1' ranee, and the new Hotel de Ville. I here inothing they have not carried away. ’ He tells an interesting story of General Klotz, whose army occupied Lens. ‘AYhen 1 objected to certain demands as opposed to the Hague Convention lie replied jeeringly “The Hague Convention is for'us, not for you.”