The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-06-14
81 AREKILLED,
437 HURT IN AIR
RAID ON LONDON
Among Germans Victims
Are 1873 Women and 120
Children. a
13 BOMBS DROPPED
School Filled With Little
Ones Blasted: No Military
Point Hit.
FLIERS CHASE INVADERS
Crowds See Warplanes 1900
Feet Up Rake East End
Of City.
FLIERS CHASE INVADERS

Special cdbie Despatch 10 THy suS
LONDON, June l3.-Tho voice Of the
worlds greatest city rose to cry OF
anathema to-day. after the most mur-
derous Of all the German air raids. Tho
Germans killed ninety seven OF whom
sixteen were women and twenty-stx
children. and injured 437. Of whom 1a2
were women and ninety-four we're chill
dren. The raiders did absolutely no
military or naval damage to justify
their act.
Ten little children, whose feet swung
clear off the floor sat dronins over their
lessons in a public school Without the
slightest warning German bomb
crashed through the roof and snuffed
out their lives. leaving a half hundred
more manned and torn writhing in
pain under the debris This was the
most effective piece OF work accom-
plished by the Germans.
The twelve or thirteen airplanes in
the raid-the Zeppeins evidently arc
discarded-crossed the coast and flew
over Essex to London. At North Fore
land they dropped two bombs. Then, at
l | 80. the Germans arrived over the
great East End of London and began TO
drop their bombs. It is believed they
dropped thirteen bombs.
The Huns remained over the thronged
streets of the East End for ten minutes,
showerng death into the busy thorough
fares. II their object was to damage or
destroy the principal buildings OF this
section they failed miserablv n their
object was IA Eill non-couhat,ntr .nA
innocents which is mora nearIy ,ruo N
German ideals. then the German COM
munique can truthfully state "Our air
planes carried out a successful raid over
London"
1t was an ideal June morning such
as would tend 10 rob Londoners Of a
sense of wars reality None thought any
more of air raids than Of thundcrstorms
from a clear sky until the droppjng of
the bombs shook the founda tions of the
buildings and ratified the windows. Even
then the ma ajority of the city's pcople
remained undisturbed in the office build
ings. Every one exchanged questioning
glances after the first detonation. "It is
only anti-aIrcraft practice " they told
each other
CURIOUS ones HisA Lives.
Then came further heavy renorts
These were unmistakably bombs II tho
general public can be Judged by those
In the affected area. without exagpers
ton over half of the citv's POPULATION
look upon air raids as "A mere display of
6reWOrks They nav no mora attantinp
~ NY p"S ~ n'o'c "''e,i'ioh =
than thev would to hand of nusic
during pvrotechnics. Every one wants
IA no hle ia tou bis neighbors tb.t hs
saw the enemy's nIauas and II doesn,t
ma,ter whether his neck ia risxed .o
thai ha can sav II
E,v.,, accossibie bousoto, In I.ordon
vas dn,,ed Win skv yazors .vor,. str..,
swarmed with women and children, who
hor,h dronn.d roar thor, ~ orc no,.or
a., a,or, ,bonsand ro, ,ho ,a;n...,
clir,rse ~ tho rai1ors j., vas hoc,wss
,h,, ono ncrsor had ahnor,,al o,.osi,h,
~. nI,nos ,,aintoirod On a,.or.na
height ot - ooo feet which rroclnda,
the nossibilitv Of the human evc mn.
aided picking them out of the upper