TEE AIR-RAID ON PARIS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2683, 1 February 1916, Page 5

TEE AIR-RAID ON PARIS

FiFTY-ONE CASUALTIES ■FURTHER DETAILS OF THE VISITATION 8/ Telesraph.—Proas Association—Copyright New York January 30. Reuter's agent at Paris reports that 24 persons were killed and 27 injured by the Zeppelin raid on Paris on Saturday night. Paris, January 30. The victims'of the air raid were forty womon ; old. men, and children. Disregarding the warning to take cover, crowds rushed into the boulevards and watched the skies. A thick mist overhung the city to _.a- height of two thousand feet, dimmi-slmis; the penetrative power of 'the searchlights and hampering the work of tlie air-craft fruns and the mil-suing aeroplanes. The Zeppelin, flying at a great height, was fired upon as it disappeared. Tho victims at ona point numbered fifteen, ami in other places a man. three womon, and two children were killed.Others were killed bv the collapse of a, house.' One bomb killed several, and did considerable damage to property. Thirteen bombs were dropped. Nine houses wore wrecked, and seven people were killed, the majority in houses, and none in the street." Twenty people were injured. President ; Poincare and M. Malvy (Minister of tho Interior) | visited the stricken centres. The bombs wero of tho most powerFnl type. One uprooted a tree and hurled it twenty yards on to the roof of a building. ' Another injured fifteen people. In the morning it was announced that the raid had ended. A police officer and liis info wore among the killed, and the fifteen _ mentioned included some who were.killed.