IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 January 1918, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

RAID ON LONDON,

FORTY-SEVEN KILLED

Beceived 8.35.

LONDON, January 29

The Press Bureau reports a further attack on London' after midnight. Bombs were dropped at 2,30 in the

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- NEW YORK, January 29. It is reported that 47 persons were killed in the raid.

ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP AN ARSENAL

Received 10.30

AMSTERDAM, Jan 29

Five revolutionary Socialists were arrested in the act of trying'to' blow up the Amsterdam arsenal. They belonged to the so-called Dutch • Bolsheviks : The prevention of an explosion was sheer luck.

BRITISH AIRMEN IN ITALY.

LONDON, Jan 28

A British official report from Italy states: We shot down during the past week six aeroplanes. Since the end of November we have downed 39 enemy machines. Five of ours are missing.

HUNS ° BOMB UNDEFENDED TOWNS.

ROME, Jan 28

I. Austro-German airmen have resumled their attacks on our undefended [cities. They cannot pretend they .have a military objective, for they bombed through thick clouds, rendering aim impossible. Ninety bombs fell in Treviso. There were six raids hetween 7 at night and daybreak. They destroyed several houses, burying 15 civilians. There was greater material damage but fewer victims at Mestre, where they bombed at random, but hit three hospitals, wounding three nurses.

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