IN THE AIR.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1918, Page 6

IN THE AIR.

■ 'PANIC IN RHINE TOWNS, APPEALS FOE CESSATION. Borne, May 24. Travellers, including an ever-increas-iiifT imiulier of well-to-do German women, declare that panic prevails in the Rhine towns owing to the recent raids. Cellars arc being converted into bedrooms, and numbers of people are fleeing further into the interior. The Ehineland burgomasters have made further urgent appeals to the Reichstag to bring about a cessation of aerial attacks upon England and 'Paris. BRITfSH BOMBING RAIDS. GERMAN TOWNS ATTACKED. London, May 24. Sir Douglas Haig's aviation report states: Our night-fliers dropped 11 tons of bombs on aerodromes, Bruges docks, and billets. We again attacked Mannheim and dropped 24 heavy bombs on the Chlorine factory, causing two large fires. The aviators clearly observed the blackened girders of the buildings gutted by the fires the preceding ngiht. We also dropped four tons of bombs on an important electric power station at Kneusewald. All our machines returned. We heavily bombed on Thursday morning the Metz-Sablons railway station. Bursts were observed on the engine sleds.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter.