TAKING THEM CALMLY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1916, Page 5

TAKING THEM CALMLY.

ENGLISH STOICISM. Received April 4, 10.50 p.m. ' London, April 4. England is not perturbed at the air raids on three successive nights. Newspaper s emphasise the fruitlessness of these murderous invasions, which have not had the slightest military achievement, but only resulted in kililng unfortunate civilians'. The bombs were dropped mostly on the poorest quarters, except in Hie Scottish city, where hotels suffered, although the Zeppelins cruised about for several hours, drawing a bombardment. Indications point to the authorities being better prepared now. GREAT DEEDS UNDONE. | A GERMAN VERSION. • Received April 4, 10.40 p.m. Amsterdam, April 4. A German communique says: Our airships on Saturday attacked the East Coast of England, and bombarded, with incendiary bombs, the iron foundries, blast/'furnaces, and industrial works on the south bank of the river Tees, and the harbor and buildings near Middlesborough and Sunderland, for an hour and a half. There were violent explosions, and the collapse of buildings. Th e outbreak of fires indicated the good effects of the attack. Despite a. vigorous anti-aircraft bombardment our airships vvere unharmed. A British official statement says that the above report is untrue. EASTERN TOWN'S EXPERIENCE. Received April 4, 10.30 p.m. London, April 4. A town in an eastern county reports that a Zeppelin, flying low, was subjected to fierce shrapnel fire. It rose rapidly, accompanied by an appalling series of terrific explosions, indicating that the commander wag terror-stricken and had let loose every projectile aboard. The airship disappeared coastwards. Many craters, large enough to bury a hay stack, were caused. A TREACHEROUS ENGINEER. London, April 4. ■An engineer has been arrested at an East Coast town, charged with being in possession of a signalling lamp, Flashes were seen at midnight. j RAID ON DUNKIRK. TWO CIVILIANS KILLED. Received April 4, 8.20 p.m. Paris, April J. A communique says that a Zeppelin dropped eight bombs on Dunkirk last night, doing small material damage. Two civilians were killed and four wounded. AVENGING DUNKIRK. FOUR MORE MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN. Received April 4, 11.10 p.m. (Paris, April 4. Thirty-one Allied aircraft, as a reprisal for the Dunkirk raid, dropped eighty-three beavy bombs on enemy cantonments in the Houtlihoulst region. Our aviators downed four more German machines in the Verdun region.