In the Air.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1915, Page 5

In the Air.

THE RAID ON KARLSRUHE. WORSE THAN GERMANS RELIEVED. ' NO PART OF CITY SPARED. PEOPLE BLIND 'WITH PANIC'. Received June IS, 8.5 p.m. Amsterdam, June IS. A correspondent of the Koshnisehc \ oiks Zcitung as an eyewitness narrates that the raid on Karlsruhe was worse than the Germans believed. A single airman appeared at fi.HO and did not attract attention, but soon buzzing was heard on all sides, and more aeroplanes , appeared at high speed. A crowd gath- J. ered, assuming the machines were 'Ger- (1 man, and then motor-horn? and steam jsyrens hooted out danger signals and f, anti-aircraft guns opened fire. _ The aeroplanes spared no part of the ' city, and nerve-shattering crashes followed each other quickly. The inhabit- v ants were blind with panic and fled to their houses and cellars, leaving the dead and wounded where tliev had fall- ? cn ' b Some of the greatest havoc was near Rondelplatr and Karl Eriedrich Strasse, where seven were killed. The airmen disappeared at S o'clock, and slowly the inhabitants ventured out . anil gathered at the spots where people had been killed. V Received June IS, 11.20 p.m. Amsterdam, .lune IS. The l.okal Anzciger states Unit eleven /' men. seven women and girls, and four f schoolboys were killed at Karlsruhe, and seventy-three were wounded, SATISFACTION IN FRANCSR. a; " di Received June IS, 5.5 p.m. ai Paris, June 17. til There is great sati-faction in France gi at tile bombardment of Karlsru'-ias wi a tardy and fitting reply to the count- to less German attacks on unfortified ae towns. Oi

RAID BY ALLIED AIRMEN. . GERMAN POSITIONS BOMBED. Received June IS, 5.5 p.m. . Amsterdam, June 17. Allied aeroplanes last night bombed the German positions at /.'eebrusrue, lleyst and Kuoeke, and caused serious damage. The aviators escaped. MORE AIRCRAFT ADVOCATED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received June IS, 0:211 p.m. London, June 17. In the House of Commons -Mr. JoYnson Ilieks, urging the need for increasing the supply of aircraft, .said that Britain could turn out aeroplanes of lAO horse-power, carrying sixteen men, similar to those used I.".- France, and eapa'ole of carrying destructive bombs, in three months. A MENACE TO ZEI'PIiLINS. Paris, June 17. A message received via Switzerland says that Count Zeppelin's technical as--Mants at Friedriehsliafcn are greatly perturbed at the result of HVarneford's success in Belgium. Count Zeppelin has always represented the danger of attack by aeroplane as negligible. Ilis expert advisers now say that it will be necessary cither to increase t'le, buoyancy of Zeppelins by carrying fewer men and bombs, or there, will have to be a radical change in design.