The Mena weekly star., 1917-06-21
Used Aerial Tornedoes.

ADOut fifteen machines and the Downtown section of London was their chief objective. Many bombs
 fell in the East End, where build
 ings were destroyed and others bad
 ly damaged and scores of persons
 fell victims to the explosions. In one instance alone ten children were H killed in street and 50 were in-
 jured.
 It is stated that the air raiders dis
 charged aerial torpedoes as well as
 bombs. The destruction of two in- < dustrial buildings, where several T persons were killed, is aserihed te # the torpedoes.
 Bombs on Trains Killed Many. Terrible scenes were witnessed < during the raid at a railway station. H where two bombs were dropped & Luckily they missed the busy part k of the station. but struck a train at # the far end of the platform, fairly s full of passengers, waiting to start. & The two foremost carriages were de- X stroyed. One bomb hit the train E squarely and one carriage caught N fire. Several passengers were killed and others badly injured and unable to escape, were incinerated 1t is believed that twenty four persons were killed or injured on this train Another coach standing on an ad- joining line was in the service of a travelling medical board. This also burst into flames and soon became a charred mass. Some of the bodies were so burned as to make identi- fication difficult. Only One Foe Brought Down. British airplanes ascended imme- diately the signal was given that hostile machines were coming, but the Germans remained at great height and flew swiftly, and evident ly the British fighters had difficulty in the pursuit, for the loss of only one German machine has been re- corded Others have been reported to have been brought down, but there is no official confirmation of this.
 Field Marshal Viscount French, commander of the home defenses, announced that no damage of mil
 itary OF naval nature was done.
 School Children Murdered.
 The bombing of a school house furnished one of the most pitable scenes in the whole raid. The bomb struck the roof squarely, cutting clean thru and passing thru two class rooms, one above the other,
 Killing some children, but sparing the majority 1t finally exploded With terrific force in a room on the ground floor where there were sixty four little children from , to years of age, ten of whom were killed out right and aii tine others more UT less injured.
 The room was thirty-six feet by twenty-four and the force of the ex- ploslon in such confined area was naturally terrific. Some of the babies had arms and legs torn off, others were shockingly lascerated, some stunned and others buried in the wfeckage.
 The room was filled with the screams and means of the tiny suf- lerers, many of whom were crying dlstractedly for their mothers. Help CTS who rushed in from the out slue found four women teachers, wonderfully self possessed, although covered with blood, giving what help was possible to their little cnarges and trying to calm those who were only slightly hurt. Many or the children were lying limp and iheipiess across the shattered desks, breeding from terrible wounds. 0th- CTS were writhing in pain and some Dodles were unacceptable.