AIR RAID ON LONDON.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1917, Page 5

AIR RAID ON LONDON.

REPRISALS FOR RAIDS. frOVEMMENT REFUSE .TO BE bRAWiI. BISHOPS' ATTITUDE DENOUNCED. Received June 15, 8 p.m. London, June 36. In the Houbo of Commons, on Mr. Bonar Law declining to reply to questions regarding reprisal? for tho air raids, Mr. Pemberton Billing endeavored to move the adjournment. The Speaker refused to accept the motion, on the ground that Mr. Billing had previously attempted to move a motion. Mr. Kelleway, Parliamentary Sec;-'pry of Munitions, stated that everyone >d and wounded in the raid was acU in, and there was not an iota of dainaj...:. to military or naval property. He feared ;io raider was downed. A meeting at Tower Hill, including many women, denounced the bishops' attitude against reprisals, The speakers declared that 17,000 curates ought to be called to the army. HARROWING SCENES. ANGUISHED MOTHERS SCALE ■ WALLS. London, June 14. Harrowing scenes occurred at an East End school when a x>mb penetrated the roof and killed a girl on the top floor arid several boys In the senior claas on the next floor. It exploded in the in- : fants' room on the ground floor, scattering sixty-four infants. The teachers were uninjured, but were covered with. Wood and irorked heroically. Soldiera and bluejackets wept while removing the maimed bodies, which had exercise books and shattered Blates clasped in their little hands. Portions of nine boyn and girls were carried out and laid on the roadside. Others were terribly mutilated, having their hands and feet blown off. Anguished mothers flocked to the school and, being debarred admission, frantically scaled the walls. PRESS COMMENTS. STERNEST REPRISALS URGED. London, June 14. Further deaths from the raid bring the total to 103. There were pathetic scenes in the hospitals throughout the night. Many waited long hours for news of missing relatives. •Newspapers comment that the raider* were not vigorously attacked before reaching London, and also ask why a warning was not given when the authorities knew of the arrival of the aeroplanes on the coast fifty minutes before they reached London. The same newspapers call for the sternest reprisals. New York, June 14. The New York Sun, in an editorial, says: "We are able to crush the German air forces," and suggests raids against Germany in reprisal for the London attacks. Lord Northcliffe has made a statement that Germany will continue air raids on England until England makes reprisal!). , London, June 14. A wireless German official message states:—Our airmen bombed tho fort of London. A German official message says: 'A fleet of our large aeroplanes bombed the Fort of London yesterday. It wag clear weather and we observed good hits. De* spite strong defensive Are and numerous aerial engagements, in which an English airman fell in the Thames, all ours returned unharmed. There is a strong demand for reprisals i for the aerial raids. Numerous .publicists urge the bombing of a German town after each raid. 'A meeting' in Hyde Park cheered a proposal to send 600 aeroplanes to bomb Berlin. LATEST CASUALTY FIGURES. Reuter Service. Received Juno 15, 10.55 p.m. ' London, June 15. In. the House of Commons, Sir G. Cave stated that the air raid casualties numbered 104 killed, 154 seriously injured and 209 slightly, including 120 casualties among children.