France

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 14, 3 September 1914, Page 5

France

Bombardment of Paris FRENCH AIRMEN ORGANISE FOR DEFENCE. Paris, September 2. One of Sunday's bombs killed two women and wounded an old man. Another fell on a chimney, wrecking a flat. A second aeroplane dropped bombs yesterday, without damage. A flotilla of armoured aeroplanes, with mitrailleuses, has been organised to chase away Germans who fly or«r Paris.

Times and Sydney Sun Seryioks.

Paris, September 1

The Press reports that many airmen are going to the front to revenge themselves on the Germans for dropping bombs in Paris. The authorities at the Louvre are protecting the chief works of art from danger of aerial bombs. The "Venus of Milo" has been enclosed in a steel room. "The Winged Victory" has been sheltered by heavy iron plates. Other masterpieces are guarded by sacks of earth. The upper stories of the building have been converted into a hospital, and is flying the Red Cross flag.

RED CROSS AUTOMOBILES LEAVE LILLE.

(Received 1 p.m.) Paris, September 2

Forty Red Cross automobiles left Lille for the neighbourhood, where the dead and wounded are in exceptionally large numbers.