The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-05-26
German Airplanes to the Number
of Sixteen Garry Out the Most
Ambitious Airplane Attack That
Has Been Undertaken.
BOMBS DROPPED WHILE
STREETS ARE CROWDED
Women and Children Make Up
the Majority of Dead Houses
and Small Shops Demolished
Hospitals Are Crowded.

Nv Associated irfrGs
\ Town ON the southeast Coast Of
England. FRIDAY Evening. May 20 Cyua
London. MAY 20. % p mJ.-Thc
most ambitious airplane raid yet un-
dertakCu by the Germans ON Great
Britain occurred here late this after.
noon while the streets were crowded
with shoppers. p~romenaders and
workers returning To their homes.
The raiders dropped a large number
OF bombs apparent, In h~aphazarc
fashion from a mile or two above the
town. killing 80 persons. mostly
women or children "a iuJurins near
Is lf1 more.
rho first raider to arrive was tho
leader of a squadron OF five. u was
flying at such height that IL could not
bee seen against the brilliant sunlight
which flooded the ciuud-tlcrkcd SKY
except los trained observer win goud
glasses. The raider was followed pN
the other fuu AT a slightly lower cl"-
Walton. Thcy sailed in "a bee line across
town. dropping bombs continuously
Many persons iu the streets first learn
ed Of the air raid when they heard eN-
pIosiou- 81 bombs around them. IN"
zone in which the bombs were dropped
out u wide swath across the city WIN
the chief damage on the shopping ana
residential districts The bombs winch
were of large size, demolished CON.
pleteIy houses and small shops whi'h
they struck
Reports this evening from the sur
rounding district indirated there was
SOM. bombing OF u"eighhoriug villages,
oven some distance inland. These
bombs mostly were dropped as me
German airplan'~ were making g Wld'
circle To- approach this u"u tr"in thH
land side.
The intervals ut comparative lul"'
after the departure "t c'.h ~aluahtH.
ul raIdcr- we're only broken ny 'h'
sound Of distant firms OF naval guns
Al ssl and were even more harrow INK
To the populaCo han we're me hrl''
periods when the bombs actually wee
bursting IN the towns,
AZ or each visit the people IN sntl-
tiers or cellars asNcd rdCh "th,l
neither this WAS tn, last. Hours al
ter The last raider had gone MANY. p,"-
pie Kept To- their shelters 100 belief iht'
more raiders were coming There wac
uucn employment for volunteer rtl',i
workers thi eNcuins. 10 h"spll'i
/ were crowded. not uult WITH luluI'N
! but with women and children suffering
from shock, while the police u CON
stables had their hands fun palrollli' q
the devastated districts ana u"lllE wv
llrue-omc work of rcsrd'. ldtutlll'1
luuu and hundreds 81 odds ana 'h"7
which such q crisis brings iu an "''
prepared town
4 ne UlN| "TAA'l 'll '| h'' 900 ''
Nas followed after short Intervals "s
o SECOND sIuadruu and then ' ihli1
land fourth each OF which repeated
the tactics ct the urst group
The worst dum1ec done was 70 "n
10 group uf combs which rirutN lh'
business t~huroughtarc G,ruugcd Win
ipcuplc At ONE spot here sixteen woe
linen. cigHt m,l aud nine rhlldr''
liver, killed aud forty -t"" persons
were injured
After ,h, raiders had dropped their
bombs they turned huWtNards. prob
Inhly aware they would have tu taco
Tam attack from entente allied air
plaucs which would bc sent against
them from the other side uf the Ems
Fish channel. The British ana French
i%airphuc~ met the Germans un lh'
luny and spirited ushtlug occurred
with the result that three of tho rAld'
rr~ were shot down. tn, 1wh"r o'
fatalities IN likely in show a consider.
able Increase AS many ut the injured
are reported hl the officials Of ih'
local hospitals tu Dee iu "a critical con
ditiuu.
scared, amy part of the town 60
capcd IuIur, At least sixty bomb
were dropped here. falling iu a show
or an over the town. The rrrulrs|
damage was done m the shopping
center but many Of the people ON lh'
crowded streets were able tu tnk'
cover
Bombs were dropped iu three
~neighborIur towns. 81" deaths h.
those places are reported, olih"usl
'srNtrul uCrsuu- we're injured.
The injured civilians here have
beou distributed among the N,uiou
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