LONDON RAIDED BY DAYLIGHT.
Aeroplane Brought Down by French Fire Two Hours,
Later.
London was visited on Novem ber 29 for the fit time by ai
Utile distance of, and the coralus- ion there was that these were cauted by gxa explosions or that (pun preotice was in progress
somewhere within hail;
-At another clace one house only was damaged." A bomb fell through the roof and penetrated to the hssment, but did very little mischief.
THE "HONGKONG TĒLEGKAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917.
EMPEROR FRANCIS
JOSEPH.
The Scene la the Death Chamber.
Amsterdam, November 22 ---
the face with dying pieces which gave the unvarnished truth A young woman was cut about às is apparent from the bulletins German seroplane. The raid was of glass.
woman who about the Austrian Emperor's carried out in broad daylight. W83 ¡01 in bed, had condition, his Majesty continued S'x bomb were dropped, but an amzing escape, as the bomb hie usos! mode of life and very little damage was done. Came close to her head, smashing occupations right up to yesterday, There were ro deathe, and only wash basin at bør side. The bat he overtasked his powers, one person was seriously injured. broken pieces of cicckery and temperature and
bedclothes were covered with persisting, in spite of a rising Official news from Dunkirk other debris, but the woman her cough, in receiving the usual so irritating states that so seroplane was brought down there by French felf was not touched, although daily reporte. He also gave long fire at 2.15. There is little room abe is eafering greatly from audiences, during which he spoke
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for doubt that this was the London raider. A large-scale map
A man working close by saidį
The last few nights were of London was found on board. the bomb sounded like the distarbed by an irritating
Lord French's report of the bareling of a motor tyre, and if cough, but his doctore raid, issued in the afternoon, is as a piece of brick had not fallen treasured by his good heart follows:-"Between 11.50 and 12 Dear him he would have goas on action and regular breathing, noon this morning, six bomb working as though nothing had which both continued on San. were dropped on London by happened.
day. Even yesterday the Emperor hostile aeroplane flying at a great Further west a bomh burst in worked during the day, although height above the base. Nive per the middle of the roadway. It he was more fatigued and ran sons were injured, one a woman made o email hole, and a piece of down than usual. He received sericasly. The material damage the metal injured a coachmen the archduke Friedrich in an is slight."
rather seriously.. A stable agdience Isering bree-quarters Au extraordinary general meet- At midnight the Secretary of sweeper was slightly buit.
of an bour.
ing of the Green Island Cement the Admiralty made the following To the rear of baey business In the Emperor's immediate Company, Limited, was held at Bonouncement: The Cum streets a bomb came bartling circle, however, his condition the tfices of Messrs. Shewan, modore st Dunkirk has been in-through the roof of an office in caused serious anxiety. Recently Tomes and Co., the General formed by the French authorities which a young woman was em- the Archduchess Marie Valerie Managera, St. George's Bailding. that they brought down an aero-ployed. She wasslightly injured, bee always kept close at hand. this morning, for the purpose plane at 2.15 p.m. to-day (Taee- her hand being cut, besides which elder daughter, Princess of confirming two extraord. day), carrying two aaval lieuten- she was thrown against the wall Gisels of Bavaria, and his sister-inary resolutione which meeting ants, and having a large scale map and suffered some shock. Stein-law, the Azobdaches Karl were passed of London on board."
escaped from the noxious fumes Theodor of Bavaria, had now of the Company on December Futility of the Raid, with which the apartment broame arrived in Vienna, where the heir 15. The Hon. Mr. C. E. Anton It is highly improbable that charged, and emerged covered to the Throne and bis consort had presided, and there were aloc anybody in London es the with fine dual-"white s
remained continually.
present Sir Paul Chater, OH G., "hostile aeroplane," though quite miller," a colleague expressed it.
the Rev. Father Robert, and Mr.
■ number of people thought they An explosive, not an incendiary
Од Monday evening the A. 0. Lang (Directore), and did-alterwards. At the time of bomb had been discharged; this Emperor, for the first time, went Mears. R. Shewan, J. A. Young the aircraft's rapid fight over appeared to be the case in every to bed earlier than ceusl. TherJ. M. Gordon, W. Lamont, and London the sky was 'remely inetunce, .80 far as
I could firat part of the night up to 1. A. Figueirdo, shareholders; brzy, and even if the machine had certain.
o'clock passed undisturbed. Then with Mr. B. Henderson, Secretary, not been flying very high, as the The mineile cat through two
attacks of coughing began. cfacial report says it was, the ledgers on the office, and frag high fever, and felt faint.
The Chairman said:-Geatle He got up yesterday with a men..so it is past the time for weather would probably basements buried themselves in the
which the meeting has been made it invisibla.
Bis weakness then increased called, and there is a quorum pre- The aeroplane, in its brief flight was left in the roof.
walls, whilst a great gaping hole during the day, and towards 6 sent, I will ask the Secretary tr over a corner of Londor, took
The narrowest escapes were a bed. The doctors, despite the mesting.
o'clock he asked to be taken to read the notice convening "the broadly sweaterly course, and, few hundred yards away. Here Emperor's grave condition, were having regard to the congestion there was again one cuenalty stillinclined to the view that even notice,
The Secretary having road the of population and buildings, it is girl with a damaged band. She if care could not be expected surprising that the casualty list is and two others were at the time the development of the malady men, this meeting is of a so small end the damage so light. working in sa apstairs room.
The Chairman said:Gentle
The engine was not audible to
might go on for two or three days, forms! oharacter, 10 confirm By a lacky chance the bomb, the naked ear. It may possibly instead of striking the roof direct, was in a profound sleep. Between
In the evening the Emperor the resolutione passed at the been detected by the spent its force against a chim- 8 and 9, when microphone. Bat se it is not ney stack 14ft. high,
extraordinary general meeting beld ancoma on for car own seroplanes aleo by good fortune, the atack stupefied to find that a speedy far as possible, the reason why on December 15 last. approached his bed, they were At that meeting I explained, se to fly over London, danger would fell outwards into so.empty yard. end was imminent. The Court it was desirable to make a refund not have been apprehended if the The three girls were thrown ff chaplain, Dr. Seidl, administered of capital to the shareholders. To visitor's presence was eiguailed their feet. They behaved very extreme anction in the presence the remarks I then made it is not in this way.
pluckily, said a loreman. They of the Emperor's family. calmly made their way downstairs unaided, and then the injured who bad remained constantly at first resolution:-
The Archduchess Marie Valerie, necessary for me to add anything now, I will therefore propose the hand was quietly attended to, her father's death-bed, had gone, afterwards receiving six stitches to the Western Railway Station in hospital. The first bomb was literally a
shortly before 8 o'clock to meet There were escapes in the road her daughter coming from Wal bolt from the blue. The only in front of the premises, for traffic see. Sbo was, however, immedia injury was to e women, who
was heavy at the time. Taxicabetely recalled by the Court officiela sustained a cat hand and was re-and other motors were on a mid- to Bchoenbrunn, as after bar moved to hospital. The concussica way stand; women with children departare all hope of the Emperor shattered the windows of a num- ber of houses along a side street. the bomb been deflected in its appeared, and shortly after ker were out to see the shops, and had living through the night had dis- Then a bomb atrack an on-descent a occupied building, exploding on must have resulted.
grievous death-roll return his Majesty breathed his
last. the roof, and causing mischief to] the rest of abutting house on a Equare.
So unexpected was the bomb ing in broad daylight that in more than one place the loud reports were at first attributed to gas explosions.
Glass and debris from a pierced atable were hurled across the mews, and the furniture in the living rooms of two houses im- mediately opposite was overturn ed and broken. In each an coen ant was hurt. The middle-aged wils of a coachmen received flesh wound in the upper part of the arm-etrock, it is asinmed, by a fragment of the bomb, and
and
the doctors
"When these people realised Vienna Par.lysed by the News. what had happened their self-
In spite of the evening balletin, a shopkeeper. "There was ze Majesty's possession was splendid," remark-which left no doubt about his panic. Women were horrified people still maintained a firm condition, Eat they kept cool."
belief in his power of recupera-
Berions
One of the bombs fell in the tion, and the news of his death, garden of a square, and made a which was published about 11 considerable bole and this per- o'clock, had an absolutely paralya- hape was the most spectacular ing effect on the public, who result of the raid as far as material could hardly credit it. damage went.
All amusemente were at ОДСВ
A farewell glimpse of the suspended. raider was likened to a tiny speck
According to the semi-cficisi
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Mr. Shewan-Mr. Chairman,
ber hand was cut by acattered at a great altitude, and it is Fremdenblau, those present in glass; and Belgian woman, averred that its departure was in, the death chamber when the I beg to end that. from Brussels, was similarly cut a south-westerly direction. about the face,
Emperor died included all the The Chairman:-It has been The fret-named casualty aptioned tome who had been on who were in Vienna, all the Court by Mr. Shewan that the first 16- Extra police had to be requisi- members of the Imperial house proposed by myself and seconded pears to be the most serious of night duty being called from dignitaries, Baron Burian, Mini-solution be confirmed. Those in the number reported; the sufferer their beds-to regalate traffic in ster of Foreign Affairs, and Dr. favour please signify in the usual was treated at hospital, and after-streets thronged by sight-seeing von Koerber, the new Austrian manner. Aginal? Carried on- wards removed to her home where crowds.
Premier: The she is confined to her bed.
Archduabass animonsly. I will now propose “I was upalaira when the ex- It is reported that of the four Mario Valerie read the prayers the second resolution: plosion occurred," neighbour persons taken to hospital three for the dying.-Router,
.
euffered only minor injuries; and
sold me, “and instinctively. I farned my face to the wall, not wore able after treatment to re-
knowing yet fearing what might hart, with a gash in the leg, was turn home. A man more badly happen. There were thras
dolained; but his wound is not bomb reporta, but one could not
Eorious. Eady Chronicle, precisely Icoate each, excapt that the explosion at our very doors founded as if it would bring down the place. Than I ran cut to see about my
children, who were at school. I
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That application be made to the Supreme Court of Hongkong to confirm the reduction of the capital of the Company in con- formity with the foregoing. Resolution.
Mr. Young- bag to second
be expended here for the con- that. struction of a fl-at base.on the The Cheirman--This resola- deep water of Ban Francisco bay,tion has been prop wed by myself and for the continuation of the and seconded by Mr. Young. For possenting 30 taels of pre-Mara Island yard. It was original Those in favour kindly signify saw the coachman's wife come pared opiam at Kowloon Ferry ly planned to abolish Mare Idsud in the ceas! menner. Agaisal? down her steps, totter along, and Wharf, a Chinese was fined by yard and construct a new station That is carried. That is all the fall down. I went to help her." Mr. J. B. Word this morning for all purposes but this would basiness, gentk men; thank you
The children had heard the ex-$2,000, or eix months' hard have cost £75,000,000 G and was for your attendszer," plosions while in school some labour.
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