Evening star., 1914-12-31
DEAD. il i
AIR RAID VICTIMS
Thirty-TWo Others Wounded
by Bombs Dropped on Dun
kirk by Germans.
ZEPPELIN REP0RTEDL LOST
IN ATTACK ON CUxHAVEN
French Said to Be Building Big Fleet
Of Aircraft for Attack on Ger
many in Spring.

LONDON, December 3l-Four Ger
man aeroplanes flew several times over
the city of Dunkirk Wednesday, drop
ping bombs as they went, according
to the Dunkirk correspondent Of the
Daily Mail. Soldiers in the streets fired
on the machines. and one Taube seemed
to be hit. but all got safely away.
The official returns OF the casualties
show that fifteen persons were killed
and thirty-two wounded. The bombs
were filed with shrapnel.
For half an hour the whole city
cracked with rife shots and bombs.
which threw up dense clouds Of black
smoke. No sooner did one aeroplane
seem to depart than another arrived.
Buildings in all parts of the city were
wrecked.
The first bomb fell on the fortidca-
tlonS, two more near the railway sta
ton and many others in different parts
of the town and in the suburb of
RoSendaeil and the districts of Coude
kerdue and Furnes. One child had an
arm blown off and an old woman was
killed outright.
The fifth aeroplane remained as SEN
try outside the town ready to attack
any of the allies aeroplanes that
might seek to repel the air assailants.
Zeppelin Reported Destroyed.
GENEVA, via Paris, December 31.--
News has reached Romanshorn from
Friedrichshafen to the effect that dur
ing the recent British aerial raid OIL
Cuxhaven one of the latest super
Zeppelins, which was completed two
months ago, was entirely destroyed in
its shed by bombs dropped by the
aviators and that another Zeppelin es-
capped only by rising rapidly in the
air.
1t is stated that the British attack
inland of Cuxhaven, where the Yep
pelins were stationed, came as a com
plete surprise. The Friedrichshafel
factory. 1t Is said, has received urgent
orders to hasten the completion of two
Zeppelins now building In order to re-
place the big machine destroyed at
Cuxhaven. The men in the factory are
working over time. Count Zeppelin ar
rived at Friedrichshafen from the front
yesterday to supervise the work
For Air Raid on Germany.
NEW YORK. December 31.-France
is building two great fleets of air craft,
armed with cannon, darts and bombs,
with which to invade Germany In the
spring, according to Pedro Chapa, a
Mexican aviator, who has been in Eu-
rope for the last four years, and who
arrived here last night on the Cunard
liner Carpathia- Hundreds of armored
biplanes, each carrying a small cannon
and bombs, and numerous monoplanes
equipped with bombs and steel darts
will be ready to sweep across the Ger
man frontier when winter is past, he
said. The monoplanes are intended
mainly for scout work, and will make
speed of 120 miles an hour. All tho
aeroplanes will have cruising radius
of 1870 miles from the frontiers, said
Chlpa, and their attack will not be in
the form of raids by 4 few machines.
AS hitherto, but by large divisions
The 'aviators to man these machines
are now being trained in several large
schools established for the purpose.
he said.
Chapa. who is a graduate of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania, is to go to
Mexico City to construct aeroplanes
for the Mexican government, after
visiting his home in Monterey.