By Francis McCullagh, Warsaw, Oct, 24.
The bomb-throwing from acco planes in which the Germans dulged at Warsaw created a panic in the city. On one day alone, fourteen bombs were thrown from aeroplanes, forty-one persons—be. ing wounded by them and seven killed. On Friday October 16 a bomb was dropped at the Warsaw-Vienna railway station apparently yat a train wherein I was seated, though it may also have been aim: ed at the station generally or at some troops passing outside, Those troops were bringing ammunition to the Front and it is good that the bomb did not explode their cart-load of explosives—otherwise the loss of life would have been ry great. Ax it was, five horses were killed, including a horse which an officer was riding. Three or four soldiers were killed and a few civilians, Among the civilians was the hairdresser of the Hotel Polonia who bled to death on the street.
Not a pane of glass.was left in any of the front windows of the Hotel Polonia, which is situated just opposite the Vienna railway station, Watching the Skies, Of course nearly all the guests of that hotel cleared out as it was feared that the airmen would aim again at so obvious a mark as the railway station. Only—three waiters remained and they spent most of their time gazing heaven. ward so that they might bolt when the next aeroplane sailed into sight. Stargazing seemed, indeed, to have become the only occupation of most Warsaw residents during these troublous days, A man would ut cross a street until he had first cast a swift glance upward to see if there were no aeroplanes abo When an aeroplane did appear the distant horizon, its progress was watched with feverish intentness by tens of thousands of eyes from street-corners, windows, shop-doors and roofs.
When an aeroplane came rigint overhead, the crowd seemed hyp: noticed, for it seldom broke up. Tt continued gazing stolidly at—the small bird-shaped speck—floating far above it despite the fact that the bird-shaped speck was evident ly preparing to drop a bomb. It was difficult to know the cause of Original from
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