In the Air.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1915, Page 5

In the Air.

WARNEFORD KILLED. FALL OF EIGHT HUNDRED KEKT. London, June 18. Warneford, "while fl}«tng u Karman biplane at the Paris aerodrome with a civilian, came to grief and was killed, the passenger also being killed. Received June 30, 3.30 p in, Paris, June 1!). iWarneford was killed while testing ihis machine. lie was accompanied by Henry Needham, an American, and they fell eight hundred feet. Their bodies were unrecognisable. (Wameford was the Canadian airman who brought down a Zeppelin recently in a particularly daring manner, being awarded the Victoria Cross and the French Legion of Honor for bin gallantry.) • Received June 20, 3.50^p.m, Paris, Jane 1!). The bodies of Wameford and Needham were brought to the mortuary r,t the British hospital at Versailles from Bue. The coffins were covered with Union Jacks and the Stars and Stripes and floral gifts from the medical staff and from British convalescent, soldiers who are inmates of the hospitals. The o(licers and men of the garrison sent wreaths and baskets of flowers. HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. Received June 20, 4 p.m. Paris, June If). The Journal says Wameford described several largo circles, and made several rapid descents. When at an altitude of two hundred metres he tried a turn to the right, and somersaul'-'" fell heavily, The occupant' an: J stropped) « n( l both fell -j ut " were 110 THE RAID ON KARLSRUHE. DETAII,,? TiAMnw, I Received June 20, p.m. Geneva, June 1(1, Retails of the aerial raid on Karlsruhe show that the first, bomb fell near the Emperor's monument in the Kaiser Platz and tore up the tramway, killing two people and wounding two. Other projectiles damaged the Post Office. A shell killed five people outside the Margrave Palace. Bombs fell in the .Market Place, near the Hof Theatre and the Synagogue, in the Grand Ducal garden, and on the roof of Prinze Max's palace, where the royal children narrowly escaped. Amsterdam, June 18. The. Kaiser has telegraphed to the Grand Duke of Baden his deep indignation at the wicked attack on his beloved Karlsruhe. The fact that there were poor innocent victims among civilians had greatly distressed him.