In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 66, 20 March 1915, Page 5

In the Air

ZEPPELIN RAID ON CALAIS. SEVEN RAILWAYMEN KILLED. United Press Association. Paris, March 19. Official.—A Zeppelin bombed Calais and killed seven employees at the railway station, but caused little damage to property. BOMBED FOR EIGHTEEN MINUTES. LITTLE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. London, March 19. The Daily Chronicle correspondent at Calais says the Zeppelin arrived at midnight. The town was immediately darkened and quickfirers manned, but the searchlight was unable to penetrate the fog. Bombs fell for eighteen minutes. They were mostly incendiary bombs, but only one proved effective. It fell on railway carriages where mechanics were sleeping. The carriages were soon ablaze, and seven men were killed, their heads and limbs being blown off. Nine were extricated alive. Another bomb pierced a vault in the transept of Notre Dame Cathedral, and a third damaged La Morecq Hospital . The tracks of blazing petroleum where they fell were visible for an hour after the Zeppelin left.

ELEVEN BOMBS FROM A TAUBE. MORE BABY-KILLING IN FRANCE Paris, March 19. A Taube dropped eleven bombs at Roporinghe, and killed a woman, three children two soldiers and two others, and wounded seven children and thirteen others.