IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 March 1918, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

THE STUTTGART RAID. \ MOST SUCCESSFUL KNOWN. | HUNS SQUEATING FOR REPRISALS. Received 10.50. B'ASLE, March 13. The Stuttgart burgomaster has made: urgent representations to Hindenburg e Jmng! foi* instant reprisals against Britain; j ; German newspapers show the Stuttgart raid was one of the most successful attacks known, lasting twenty Bombs crashed on the houses and firoSAvcfe started at widely separated parts of the city. NAPLES BOMBED. Received 10.20, ROME, March L 3. Naples was bombed by a single dirigible from Lagosto Islands. Twenty bombs fell at a height of 1200 feet. The old Church of St. Bridget and St. Nicholas was destroyed. HULL BOMBED. GOOD WORK IN THE WEST. Received 11.25. LONDON, March 13. Press Bureau reports three enemy airships participated in last night’s raid, but only one approached a defended localty, namely Hull, and dropped four bombs, demolishing a house. A woman diede from shock, and thers wounded. For hours in remote districts at great altitudes bombs w r erc unloaded in th? open country. The machines then proceeded seawards. The Admiralty reports, our naval aircraft dropped three tons of bombs on Burgos Docks, and raided billets and sidings at St. Pierra Capelle. Yesterday they started large fires and machine-gunned enemy trenches. RAID ON YORKSHIRE. . Received 10.50, LONDON, March 13., 1 I ( The Press Bureau reports thab-aif-; ships attacked Yorkshire in the even ; ing. ’A few bombs were dropped slightly inland. The raid is still prof ceeding. ; I