Echo of an Air-raid.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 14 April 1917, Page 2

Echo of an Air-raid.

FALSE GERMAN CHARGE. The British Admiralty makes the following announcement: — A German wireless press message as received in the Mediterranean contained the following:— "The American Government is raising a protest to Great Britain for allowing {British airmen to bombard the the station of Drama before the ejected delegates and Consuls had left, in face of the airmen's knowledge that the delegates had to be met at the station. This bombardment, which of course was unsuccessful, is the latest case in the history of'the breach of international law by the alleged protectors of "smaller nations. A report which has ibeen received from Itlie Vice-Admiral commanding; Eastern Mediterranean, giving details of the bombing of Drama (in Macedonia) by British airmen, serves admirably to illustrate, when compared with the German wireless press message of December 1. the methods of [ German propagandists. j The substance of the Vice-Admiral's report is as follows : — ®

The representative*; of the German, j Austrian, Turkish, and Bulgarian Governments, when expelled from Athens, were sent at their own request, togeth. er with their families and servants, by- specially chartered steamer to Kavala. •After being landed, a request from the German Minister was conveyed to the Thasos Air-Station, asking that the Drama-Ivavala road might not be bombed for 2-1 hours from 6.40 a.m. on November 25, as it being used by women and children belonging to the evicted enemy Legations. The commanding officer of Thasos arir station not only complied with this request, but as a further act of grace, refrained from any operation against Drama station .and aerodrome until November 28th, when both wore 'bomb_ ed with effect. The only attack made on November 25th was upon the Drama aerodrome alone, and was carried out before the message froui the Gorniim iMinistei reached the Allied air station at Stavros. No bombs were dropped in ov near the town, nor in the vicinity of either the station or' the Drama-Kavala road. The report was substantiated by photographs.—X/oiidon Times.