In the Air.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 317, 17 June 1915, Page 5

In the Air.

BOMBS FOR KARLSRUHE. RAID BY FRENCH AVIATORS. BOMBS CAUSE FIRES. PANIC AT RAILWAY STATION. TWO AEROPLANES LOST. Amsterdam, Juno ]5. A Berlin telegram states that live enemy airmen 'bombarded Karlsruhe (Baden). The attack lasted 45 minutes. Several were killed and wounded, and damage was done to numerous places, but, from a military point of view, it was not important. Received June 10, 8.5 p.m. Paris, June IC. Official: As a reprisal to the bombardment of French and British towns, we sent twenty-three aeroplanes to Karlsruhe, and they dropped 130 projectiles on the castle, an arms factory and the railway station. Many fires were seen, and there was great panic at the station, from where trains were hastily despatched eastwards. The enemy vigorously shelled the squadron at Zabern, Striisburg, Rastall and Karlsruhe, on the outward journey, and at Blamont, Phalsburg and Zabern on the homeward journey. All except two men returned safely. London, June 10. The airmen were over Karlsruhe for 105 minutes. The central districts near the castle suffered most. A bomb hit Margavian Castle. (Karlsruhe is the capital of Baden, and is sixty miles east of the Rhine. It is an. industrial centre, which produces amongst other articles firearms and explosives.) THE HERMAN REPORT. ONE (AEROPLANE BROUGHT DOYC?,. Received June 10, 8.55 p.m. Amsterdam, June 10. A German official report says a hostile air squadron bomHicd the unfortified town of Karlsruhe. Eleven civilians were killed and six were wounded. One of our warplane-i ibronght down an enemy aeroplane, the occupants of which were killed.