Second Edition. In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 47, 31 January 1916, Page 6

Second Edition. In the West

-.GERMAN INFANTRY TWICE BACK. The High Commissioner reports;— V ~' London, January 30. The :.Germans last night attacked the French positions south of the Somme; on the front at Dompierre. The erfeihy infantry were twice thrown, back d« .their trenches' by the French curtain:' .of fire\-anavboinbardihent; A RAID ON PARIS. MANY VICTIMS REPORTED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. Paris, January 30. many victims of a raid One b£sJb killed,several,' and considerable damage was done to property. Nine houses were wrecked, and seven were killed, the majority of in the houses but none on the street. Twe.ntjy people were injured. . President Poincare visited the slji'icken centres. , ' The were of the most powerful description. One rooted up', and hurled a tree twenty yards to the roof of a bunding. Another injured fifteen people. ■ In morning,' it was announced • that the raid, had ended. A police officer'and his wife wer" among "the killed'.'" The fifteen mentioned some killed. Disregarding warning to take cover, crowd|>rushe,d. to >th e Boulevards and watclie'd thick mist overhung the city at a height of two thousand feet, diminishing the penetrative powers of tlie search lights and hampering the work of the anti-aircraft guns and the "chasing aeroplanes. The Zeppelins, which were Hying at a great height were fired upon as they disap- ] peared.. ' 1 The victims were 1.15 per cem. of ( ' the numbers elsewhere. A man, three women, and two children were kilfed,~lfhd others were fatally injured .by the collapse of a house. " '•' '[ " ''■ »:',';_ : - ■ .. . '