IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 June 1918, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

INCREDIBLE EFFRONTERY LONDON, May 30. The ‘'Daily Express” in a leader, declares that it is almost incredible that the Germans should have the effrontery to request the British Government ,through the Dope, to grant the Rhine cities immunity from air raids on Corpus Christi Day and much more amazing that the British Government should have acquiesced. It asks why Cologne was spared on Corpus Christi Day when a Paris Church was devastated on Good Friday, and 123 people killed, wounded and maimed in London on Whit Sunday # HUNS STILL BOMBING HOSPITALS. MINISTERING SISTERS STRUCK DOWN. Received 9.5 a.m. LONDON, May 31. The United Press correspondent reports that on the day the Archbishop of Cologne requested the Allies to refrain from bombing Cologne, the Germans bombed British hospitals. After dropping flares 'around German airmen loosed off huge bombs, one scoring a direct hit on a large hospital displaying the Red Cross prominently. The bomb ignited the wrecked building wherein some of the Sisters were struck down in the very act of ministering to the patients.

A PANIC AT MANNHEIM. Received 11.45 a.m. GENEVA, May 3. 'A panic took place among the people of Mannheim on Tuesday. There was a mad rush for shelter and eighteen women and children were trampled to death. Rhine towns continue to petition the Reichstag to obtain a cessation of reprisal raids.