Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-22 | Page 9 | German Airmen Kill 1000 in Bucharest

GERMAN AIRMEN KILL 1G0B II BUCHAREST I LONDON. March 21. 2:16 p. nv More than 1000 parsons were killed in Bucharest by the attacks of German aircraft prior to the abandonment of the city by the Ruina nians. according to an account of these raids given out. at Jassy, the present, pres-ent, capital, and forwa rded in a Renter dispatch. In a single? day 300 persons were killed by the Zeppelins and air-pla air-pla nes. On this occasion. the report states, a group of airplanes descended to a low altitudo and spent several hours in seeking victims, killing workmen and workwomen in the fields end streets. Two airplanes which were pursuing a two-horse vehicle on the road had a race to see which could reach it first. The vehicle wa s going at a good speed, but the airplanes quickly overtook it, killing the coachman, then the passenger and then the horse. The account also describes de-scribes an airplane at tack on the royal residence where the young Prince Mireea lay dying of typhoid fever. The aviators evidently believed the queen and princesses prin-cesses were still there. This attack, the report says, was the subject of a . special spe-cial telegram from the pope to the queen in which the action of the Germans was condemned. This is the first indication that such a large number of persons met death at the" hands of the German aviators. A Bucharest di?patch. late In November, said that squadrons of German airn-i ft had flown over the city for five hours and that several persons had been killed. The death of Prince Mlrcea was reported on November 3.