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"THE LONDON AIR RAID
DEMAND FOR REPRISALS INTENSIFIED.
Losos, July 8. The air-raid hus intensified the demand for reprisals.
Immediately the explosiorms veused, the streets were again crowded with people, and resumed much the usual. uspect, except for numeros speciuk - constables speeding with ambalaners and the progress of fire engines.
Ah mimbly feature was the prompt and cool work of voluntary. Lloyd's "Neurs states there was organisations, including wonen. miling sestruing, to excuse the xtors,urses and special con- failure of our defence. The raiders stables seemed to Spring from the canus leisurely put bämbed leisurely, earth, rescuing and tending the dend It seems that despite our defence and waingle Anger and deter their fight over London was so slowimation were the dominating senti- that it looks like a parade. Lonments of be populace after the don defencelessness against aetde raid. plunes must be remedier without delay.
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GERMAN VERSION OF THE `AIR-RAID....
The Sunday Times states that n new air policy, is nerdül A* ;
JoyDos, July 8. Shells was the ery in 1915, so The Berlin official version of; Aeroplanes is the ery: in 1917. yesterday's air-mid alleges that The Governing must be compelle) bombs were freely dropped on to realise that aeroplanes must be Thunes docks, harbour works, and the deciding factor of the war, warehouses; also tint one English carrying hostilities into thenuar aeroplage was shot down over Lon- territory.
don, and
that
baraba were dropped on Margate.
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the German gchines were Gothi The statement says that all the two-engined "hiplunes which were aeroplanes retumed, except one, comparatively slow, Their low, which was compelled to descend in altitude stewed their contetapt for the sea, que coukt not be rescued... our anti-aircraft batteries, yet the. muzkmanship of the latter was THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. remarkably good. Our defenes was
DENSE ENEMY ATTICKS inacle us regards duelüves.
REPULSED. The Feekly Dispatch says that if the people are unable to get protec- fion, they demand to be warned. The public are no longer in a mood
"Loxpos, July 8.
A Bussian official inessage, tra mitted by wireless, reports:-
to endure oficial obstinacy. The In the direction of Kovel, in the. paper quotes the Lord Mayor of region of Volaporsku, the enemy London as saying that the case for released gaa."
reprisals has brea euoriously
The enemy. counter-attacks at strengthened by yesterday's happen-Godoy and the Wood to the west
of Koniuchy, failed.
ings
Dense attacks supported by ar oured cars, to the west of Vyshka were repulsed..
There was intense artillery activity to the
east and south-east of
Brzeziny..
Reynold's Newspaper says that: it is now obvious that the German raids are deliberate operations of murder and terrorism.“ Londoners, ure now determined to fix the responsibility lor aeroplane production and 36 demand reprisals on Rhenish towns. Mr. Kennedy Jones, speaking at Muswell Hill, said there must be no more shilly-shallying over the ques” tion of reprisals, and disquieting An article in the Fremdenblatt reports that Viscount French is hams-describes Austria as being complete pered by other Depurtinents must be y diaillusioned about Russia and a settled
separate peace...
**AN AMAZING · SERIES OF AIR
BATTLES.
LONDOS, July 8
The air-raid on London was but
AUSTRIA DISILLUSIONED.
AMSTREDAM, July 8.
CONFERENCE WITH THE
KIIGER
AMSTERDAY, July 8 Field Marshal von Hindenburg and. General Ludendorf are holding
an inculent, although an outstand conference
ng incident, of & most amazing Berlin.. series of air battlek, far from the
with the Kaizerns
the Chunnel to the south of the soust to London, and then back over ENEMY AGAIN VIOLENTLY
Scheldt.
ATTACK FRENCH.
FRENCH SUCCESSES.
LONDON, Juls 8.
Hundreds of thousands witnessed le spectacle, beneath comparatively low clouds, of an especially desper
A French communiqué reports:- ate fight over the southern suburba
An intense German bombardment, The German attack was plainly which lasted all night, from the directed at the civilian population north of Laffaux Mill to Frodon The raiders swooped very low to Fann, preceded violent sttacks on drop bobs. No military or muni four different sectory on the front, tions.catablishment was struck or After desperate fighting; the enemy apparently aimed at, and, though a mimes were driven of with very hrge hospital was conspicuously heavy losses. To the north and east fying the Red Cross, it just escaped of Lafuur Mill, and to the east of many bombs
Pantheon, our positions were entirel Though the enemy were twenty maintained. Between Les Bovettes. minutes over London, the satus and Fraidmont Farm, the atta bomb dropping did not exceed four developed on a front of three minutes, when the enemy ascended metres. After several hours strug to a great height art made off, the enemy was ejected fro
The noise during the attack was line elements which terrific Firat by the anti-aircraft rated. We appreciab guts, borking like machine-guns and
the posit
we relook! surrounding the raiders with securit the easto
Leroy tain fire which it seemed impossible | carried
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