German Guns Speaking.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 31 January 1918, Page 2

German Guns Speaking.

From Arras to Ypres GREAT AERIAL ACTIVITY. < [electric telegraph—copyright.] r-NOUYIOOSSV BB3Hd US<l] lleceived 8.40 a.m., this day. London, Januai-y 30. Sir Dougles Haig reports: Hostile artillery is active from Arras to Ypres. Our aeroplanes yesterday dropped four hundred bombs on lloulers, Menin and on an aerodrome near Tournai. They fired several thousand rounds on enemy troops. Air fighting was continuous all day. WORST RAID YET. LONDON'S INDESCRIBABLE HORROR. Received 8.40 a.m., this day. London, January 30. The last raid was the worst. A bomb was dropped on a large establishment used as a raid shelnumbe rof people sheltering, the ter in a district thickly populated. There is no exact estimate of the number varying from 300 to 1000. The sta.fi state it was carpa.ble of holding a thousand and it was crowded. The fire brigade removed 25 bodies and it is believed 13 others have since been recovered. The big brick building looks as if it were exit in half by a huge guillotine, the interior walls and floors then collapsing. The police and fire brigade assert it is impossible to give a reliable estimate of the deaths, but it is certain the majority were women and children. None of the survivors seem able to give a coherent account of the terrible ensuing scene —one of indscribable horror. whereto the fire added the last touch. The basement was a raginsr infrno within a few minute^. The building was soon aflame from top to bottom and daylight fonnd it a soaking ruin.

' GERMAN WORKEES REBEL Received 8.40 a.m., this day. New York, January 30. There are half a million strikers in Berlin. The Kiel shipyards and ' Westphalen mines are idle. Zurich, January 30. Hertling conferred with the military commandant at Berlin in view of the strikes and decided to confine the troops to the barracks, but the officers are instructed to act with discretion. The Independent Socialists are issuing pamphlets broadcast urging a general strike and even inciting th workers to ovrthrow the Government, destroy the bourgeoisie and proclaim a republic.