In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 48, 26 October 1915, Page 5

In the Air

BOMBS THROWN ON VENICE. ST. MARK'S CATHEDRAL ESCAPES SERIOUS DAMAGE. ANOTHER CHURCH CRUSHED. [United Prhss .".ssooiation.] (Received 9.35 a.m.) Koine, October 25. Teutonic aeroplanes attacked Venice, and one bomb fell on Piazzetta at St. Mark's, but it did not damage the sculptured ceilings. Another church was crushed.'

FAMOUS PAINTINGS DAMAGED. (Received 11.55 a.m.) Rome, October 25. The Austrian aeroplanes which bombarded the.*Church or the Degli Scaki damaged famous paintings by Tintoretto and Veronese. Venice, once the richest republic of the Mediterranean, is built on piles on numerous mud-banks and islets in a lagoon on the north-west of the Adriatic. The-Grand Canal, spanned by the famous Rialto, is two miles long, and there are countless by-ways of water, on which ply numerous gondolas. The Piazza of St. Mark, a magnificent square, surrounded by the cathedral, the T)oge' s Palace, and other public buildings of great beauty, contains also the famous lion columns. The exquisite mediaeval campanile which stood iu the square, collapsed in 1902 and is in course of re-con-struction. , Ruskin's "Stones of Venice." has familiarised many with * the beauty of the Doge's Palace. The city is still famous for its glass making and its fiye fabrics, but it is far from being the centre of that life which produced in one generation a Titian, a Tintoretto, and a Veronese. , i>/

CERMAN AIRMEN REPORT SUCCESSES. (Received 8.25 a.m.) Amsterdam, October 25. A German communique states: — Enemy airmen unsuccessfully bombed Ostend. also the railway station at Xoyon. During an aerial fight, a German shot down a British biplane westward St. Quenton, the pilot and observer being killed. German airmen attacked with good results the British camp afc Abbeville and bombed Verdun.