New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-17
Taube Within 80 Miles of
Capital-Fifty Bombs
Do Little Damage.
FRENCH AVIATORS
EXPLODE MAGAZINE
BOmbard Powder Works and
Store Houses in Germany
Fire Metz Electric Station.

London, April To- England tDiS
afternoon experienced its third hostile
air raid within forty-eight hours, but
the last, like those Immediately pre-
ceding it, resulted in no loss Of life
and no serious damage TO property.
This raid caused more than usual ex-
citement, because one Of the airships
approached, at one point. to within
about thirty miles Of London.
A raid into German territory by
French avistors was much more sue
cessful. according TO the French War
Office bulletin tonight. A shell fac
tory at Leopoldshohe, in the grand
duchy of Baden, was bombarded; an
attack on a powder magazine at Rott-
we'll, in Wurtemberg. ninety miles
from the French border. caused vio-
lent explosion, and the electric station
which supplies Metz with power and
light was set on fire.
Several bombs have been dropped by
German Taube aeroplane in the vi
cinty of the cathedral at Amiens.
Ten persons were killed or wounded.
The material damage was slight.
London on Watch.
London waited expectantly tonight
for another air raid, but at midnight
nothing had occurred. The special
constable corps organized ut the outset
of the war was called out 20 watch for
approaching air craft and 10 help pre-
serve order in case of an attack. Lon
don remains tranquil in the face of the
danger.
Taking advantage of fine flying
weather, -nich enabled Zeppelin air
ship 10 visit the vicinity of the Tyne
Wednesday night and the coasts OF
Suffolk and Essex early this morning,
German aeroplsne, having crossed
the North Sea this afternoon, few
over the County of Kent, dropping
bombs. In all four missiles were
! dropped-in the vicinity Of the towns
of Faversham and Sittingbourne, the
latter just across the Bugle from the
/ Isle of Sheppey, which is the berth
place of the British Royal Naval Fly
ing Corps. All the bombs fell in t'clds.
From Sittingbourne the aeroplane
| flew over the Isle of Sheppey, and il is
thought probable the raider mistook
the towns attacked for Sheerness, the
/ British naval base, which IS on the
other side of the island. On his way
the airman passed over Canterbury and
- -, k,,t 4
any explosive proJectlle upon or near
| them.
Two Zeppelins In Raid.
Zeppelins for it is believed there
were two of them-which visited East
Anglia during the early hours Of this
morning. dropped some twenty-five in
cendiary and explosive bombs on Love-
stoft, Southwold, Maldon, Burnham- on
the-Crouch, Heybridge and Tillingham,
but, like the raid of the previous night
on the Tynemouth district, only ma
terial damage was done, and little az
that, although a number OF persons
had very narrow escapes. In Lowe
stoft bomb dropped in a garden shat
tered a row of small houses and people
sleeping in them were cut by broken
glass.
! bombs have been sent down by the
! Germans. Either by error or purposely,
! the airmen seem TO have kept away
/ from the larger towns, where they
might have been discovered by search
/ lights and come under fire from the
land. There is an inclination here 20
consider the raids only in the nature
| of reconnoissances, for. except in the
I case of aeroplane bases, points OF
military importance were avoided, AL
| though in each case air craft passed
within short distances of such places.
In view of this belief extra precau-
I tions are being taken while the fine
weather lasts On the receipt Of tele-
grams from Holland telling Of pro-
nounced activity at the German air.
ship bases at Emden and CuXhaveu
an urgent call was issued in London
this afternoon for the special police
to go on duty at P. VI.
According TO the reports from Hol-
and, three Zeppelins were seen to-day
Aying westward over Dutch islands in
the North Sea. Count Zeppelin is said
TO be directing the movements at Cux-
haven.
The Allies already are making re-
prisals for all German attacks outside
the fighting zone, and 1t Is considered
here TO be likely that the raids over
England will receive their reply from
the British before very long.
The official French statement de-
scribing the raid into Southern Ger
many says:
Powder Magazine Exploded.
"Our sviators were very active. Ten
bombs were thrown on the workshops
of the railway station Of LeOpolds-
hoehe, east of Huringue. which were
being used for the manufacture OF
shells Ten bombs were dropped on
the powder magazine at Rottweil. Six
struck the mark, and huge red flame
shot up, surrounded by dense smoke.
/ The aeroplanes were struck by she'll
/ splinters, but returned, safe and sound.
Forty bombs. most of which struck
their mark. were dropped on the gem
/ eral electric station at Maizores les
I Metz. fifteen kilometres (about ten
milesD north of Metz. This sta
/ ton supplies the town and forts
| Of Metz with power and light.
/ Much smoke arose from the central
! building. On their return ou- ayiators
! encountered three ayiators, 10 whom
] they gave chase, forcing them 10 land.
| Our squadron suffered no m'shaps, al
though subjected to violent cannon
ade from the Metz forts"
According 10 an Amsterdam dispatch.
! the Stuttgart army commander an
nounces that the French air raid on
the powder factory az Rottweil result
| ed in the killing of two civilians and
the wounding Of another. but that the
operation Of the factory was undis-
yurhed