The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-17
40 DEAD IN ZEPPELIN
RAIDS ON ENGLAND
Official Announcement Tells
of Visits to Northeast
Coast June 6 and Is.
10 KILLED IN KARLSRUHE
Two French AviatOrs Lose
Lives and Two Are Made
Prisoners.
Special cable Despatch 10 Tnr srS.


LONDON. June 16.--The press bureau
announced tonight that sixteen persona
were killed and forty injured in last
nights Zeppelin raid On the northeas,
coast, while in tho raid OF June 6 the
casualty list was twenty-four killed and
forty injured. making forty deaths IN
the two visits to the same locality.
In addition IL is said that there were
fires on both occasions in drapcry
shops. timber yards and small houses.
The amount OF damage is not stated
The statement gays the fires continued
throughout the night. hut were extin-
grushcd by this morning. The raid OF
June 6. which was the most serious Of
all 40 far made i'm point of fatalities.
resulted in IN, death of five men,
civilians thirteen women and sN chill
dren.
Under Secretary for War Harold Ten
nant said in the House OF Commons
this afternoon that England Is preparing
for aerial warfare on gigantic scale.
The Government is said to hc manu-
featuring a large aeroplane, similar 90
the Russian S.korsky. which carries Ave
men and large quantity OF ammuni-
tion. The number OF British aeropllues
has been increased ten times during the
last few months.
Dispatches from Berlin say that the
French av!ators who raidcd Karlsruhe
yesterday killed nineteen persons and
wounded fourteen, while others were
slightly Injured
The attack is designated as a sense.
less and nefarious act" by Paul Becke~
assistant chief editor OF the Tdg,s-ci.
tung. He says that "unscrupuious re-
tallltion is demanded"
! Germany. he adds. has heretofore only
hombarded military localities, and suE.
gests that the most fitting retaliation
would be the bomblrdment OF the wes:.
4 ern part of London.
According 20 a despatch from Geneva
/ Tonight travellers arriving from klrls
ruhe say the number of persons KILLED
| there was twelve. In addition tw,
/ French aviators lost their lives and two
/ others were made prisoners when thei'
aeroplanes were shot down.
The travellers declare that the ar
| rival OF the aerial fleet caused panic
IN the city. The people. awakened hN
the bursting bombs, rushed half clad
from their houges into the streets shout
ing and screaming Two bombs strucb
the palace. destroying one wing arl
q
the arms factory. railway station. tracks
and switches The railway station aHd
several houses near by We're burning
when the travellers left Karlsruhe.
Since the German raid on London or
May ~ there have been frequent 1erra
attacks by both the Germans and the
Allies.
ON Jun, ? the headquarters of IN,
Crown Prince We're homh1rled by allied
aviators Two days later German air
men dropped bombs ON Calais. Fv,
persons were killed on the eastern Coas'
Of England by bombs from a Ioppc,f
on June &. On June a Zeppelin was
I destroyed in mida.r over Belgium and
, It's entire crew killed
Ghent was bombarled by n Hr,tsl
/ aviator on June :. and on June N"n.cs
/ was ruided by an Austrian airmIn l'a,
q ian frontier towns We're hOmha rdcd nS
Austrian aViators on June I. and twr
days later British aV.ators attacked 'h'
German driG!ble sheds at Everc, Bel
gium