Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-15
BUTCHER GERMANS
IS CRY IN LONDON
ReprisaIs on Teutons for Raids
on England Being
Demanded.
TOTAL NUMBER KILLED
is NOW PLACED AT 166
434 Persons Have Been injured in
the Nineteen Aero Demonstrations
Against the British.

LONDON, October 15.-The total num-
ber Of German aerial raids on England
up to the present is nineteen The num-
Der killed is 166 and the injured 434.
Practically the whole nation now Is
urging repr1sals.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes. advo-
eating the stationng of a small squadron
of British aeroplanes in eastern France
ready to make three similar raids on Ger
man towns for every raid on an open
town in Great Britain. He contends that
an announcement Of this kind would soon
bring the Germans to reason.
Owing to the menace under which Lon
don lives at present and the darkened con-
dition of the streets, some theater mAp-
ayers have been discussing the advisa-
bility of closing their houses at night, or
possibly having evening performances
only two nights a week.
Restrictions Urged.
"One consideration in connection with
the air raids" says the Daily Tele-
graph, 'fs that in the existing condi-
tions the more street traffic Is re-
stricted in the hours of darkness the
better it will be for the safety OF the
public and also for the police in the
performance of their duties. The risks
to pedestrians already are consider
able, partly at least because insuffi-
cient care is exercised in crossing
streets, and if more stringent light
ing regulations become necessary such
risks will be increased"
Reprisals Indorsed.
The proposal Of replying to German
air raids by bombing his sleeping
towns as he bombs ours" received an en-
thusiastic Endorsement at a mass meet
ing held in the great hall of the Can
non street hotel, in the financial district
of London.
Lord Willoughby de Broke and Will
liam Joynson-Hicks, member of parlia-
Joynson- Hicks made a demand for re.
prlsals. which was couched in lurid
language:
Let the kaiser be made to realize
what 1t means for his own people to bs
subjected. as we have been subjected
to cold blooded butchery in the dead o
night, and there will be a demand from
one end of Germany to the other K
stop the butchery in England in ordel
said.
German Report of Raid.
BERLIN, October 15.-An official re-
port given out by the German admiral
ty regarding the Zeppelin raid on Lon
don says that in addition to dropping
bombs on the English capital, the
wategworks at Hampton and the town
of Woolwich, where there is great
arsenal, were heavily bombarded. Great
fires are reported to have followed the
explosion of the Zeppelin bombs.
The text of the admiralty's state
ment follows:
German airships during the night OF
October 1914 attacked the city of Lon
don and nearby important establish
ments as well as the batteries Of Ips-
wich.
Several attacks were made especially
on the city of London
The docks of London, the water
works at Hampton. near London. and
Woolwich also were heavily lombard
ed with incendiary bombs,
AT all the places attacked important
explosions and great fires were OBJ
served
"Al the airships returned safely. al
though they We're vigorously attacke ed
on passing over the English coast"