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RHINELAND AGAIN' IBOMBED.

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RHINELAND AGAIN' I BOMBED. GROWING PANIC IN GERMANY. OUR IRRESISTIBLE AIRMEN. 'V • 'I If ENEMY TROOPS KILLED EN MASSE. VIOLENT FIRE ON ( BRITISH FRONT. BRITISH GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, FRANCE, Wednesday Night. Reconnaissance and bombing by our aero- planes and artillery and photographic work by our aeroplanes and balloons were ,c,ontinu,d uninterruptedly on the 21st inst. Some 1,200 bombs were dropped by us on 4 various targets, including four of the enemy's large aerodromes near Ghent and youruaj. and billets in the ne ighbourhood of I Armentieres, Bapaume, and Bray. 20 'Planes Down. I A good deal of fighting again took place around our bombing machines. Sixteen German aeroplanes were brought down, and two others were driven down out cf control. Two German machines were brought down by guntfre beliitid our lines. A further two tons of bombs were dropped by our aeroplanes on the Storage factory at Mannheim I C'tt the.Rhine, causing three lai,e fires, and I another two tons on the railway station at Thionville (north of Metz) and Karthaus (just south of Treves). Ope of our aeroplanes failed to return. At dawn on the 22nd inst. two formations set out 'Hi a lung distance laid to bomb the Important railway triangle at Liege. I All the machines reached their objective and dropped 22 heavy bombs. Those dropped by the first formation caused three very large fires, which were still burning furiously three-quarters of an hour later when the second formation New over Liege. Other machines dropped 12 heavy bombs en the railway station at Metz. All the machines returned. aARIS AGAIN. I :TW ) MORE RAIDS ON CITY. (Press Association "War Special.1 PARIS, Thursday. 12.50 a.m. Last night enemy aeroplanes crossed Qur lines and new towards Paris. They were signalled hy our observation posts and were received by violent artIlery barrages and V J'O enemy machines succeeded in reaching Paris. Some bombs were dropped on a point of Paris district, but there were no victims no aamage .vat done. All -"ras clear a-t ?n4 no damage was doue. An was clear at I PARIS. Thursday. 4.50 a.m. The second air rsid warning was given at 1.24 S'evetal relays of enemy aeroplanes pro- ceeded. towards Paris. Our observation ,pp,Fts (,peiiei -,ip a, violent artillery barrage and 6ur airmen ascended. A number of bombs were dropped in the Paris district. The All clear was sounded at 3.30 a.m. 400 GERMAN SOLDIERS KILLED. OCR REPLIES TO RAIDS ON I LONDON. < Writing in the "Daily Mail;" Mr. i Hamilton Fyfe says:— I have no doubt that. the news of air ra id, into Germany is received with satisfaction at home, but do not forget I that quite as good replies to the attacks ( upon London are given by our airmen in the field. Here is one example: We sent bomb-dropping squadrons orer Douai lately. Now we have in- formation as to the result. A recent prisoner represents the casualties to troops as having reached fhe figure of 700, 400 men being killed oat right. I SQUEAL FROM COLOGNE.  OF "SENSELESS MLRDER OF ? WOMEN AND CHILDREN.' .J. AMSTERDAM, Wednesday. The Cologne Yolkszeitung states fchat'Herr.Kuckhoff recently put a ques- tion to the Chancellor in the Reichstng as to the .possibility, of better protection Jor places subject to air raids. In the xa,f,d on Cologne last Saturday, ho declared, timely warning was not given to the population. He asked whether the Chancellor was repared to put an end to this sense- less murder of women and children by the conclusion of treaties of an inter- national character.—(Renter.) "THIS TERRIBLE EVFNT AT COBLENZ- A curious comment on the character of the Geirman official communiques dealing IV]th the results of Allied air raids over Ger- Ir, a ii territory has just been made hy a. neu- tral traveller, says the Exchange Telegraph r Company. wtjA.- Referring to the British air raid on Cob- lens on'March 12. the G'erman communique ¡J:ve the casualties as five killed and twer y i wounded. It was known by the airmen ccn- ■y.j; cerned that the.-e figures were absurdly be- = lo the mark. and the fact is demonstrated by the news tha.t on this occasion the Grand Duke and the Dowager Duchess of Faden 6ent telegrams to the burgomaster of Cob- len?; expressing "heartIest sympathies in this terrible event," a phrase which would hardly have been iLpplied if, 3* was preten- ded, the casualties were few. TOTAL LONDON RAID CASUALTIES. It is officially announced that the latest police reports show that the total casualties io far ascertained as having been caused by the air raid on the night of the 19th-20th in Bill the districts visited by the hostile aero- planes are as follgiva. Killed, 44. Injured, 179. (Note.—This is an increase of seven in tile number of the killed and of eighteen in the number of the injured as compared with ibe^reviously announced figures.)

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