In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 48, 1 February 1916, Page 5

In the Air

THE RAID ON PARIS. United Press Associate*. London, January 30. The Daily Chronicle’s Paris correspondent says that a single Zeppelin got over the French linos and dropped a dozen bombs, destroying nine houses, killing twenty-five people, and seriously wounding thirty others. It succeeded in returning. | The Zeppelin wa s first seen at La Fertemilon at nine o’clock, and in a few minutes, 30 aeroplanes were searching for it. Five of these sighted the raider and discharged alarm rockets, and the Zeppelin then rained bombs. 1 The Paris streets were immediately darkened. Thousands of people blocked the thoroughfares, but curiously enough, ail the victims were under cover. The area bombed was half a mile wide, in a 'working-class district. All the bombs fell within three minutes. One penetrated a macadamised street and opened the underground railway and twisted the rails, where a train had just passed, j Another struck a house and killed a woman and child. The building had been packed, but fortunately, the majority of the occupants had rushed' to the streets. Two bombs fell in , a narrow street, completely demolishing two houses and killing two women, two children, a I soldier and hi s daughter. The explosion shattered a wall, fatally crushing two women and ciT!ldren who were sheltering. Their bodies were shockingly mutilated. Reuter says that one bomb fell on the roof of the Metropolitan railway, while others pierced or destroved a three-storey and a five-storey building. One failed to explode.

THE RAIDER RETURNS. ~',V- ■ , \ London, January .11. A Zeppelin again raided Paris on Sunday night, but the damage is unknown. Saturday’s raider bombed Batignolles, Ceincy, Neuilly, Courbevoie, Asnieres. and St. Germain. Le Temps says that one aviator pursued a Zeppelin for fifty minutes. It is believed that the Zeppelin was flying at 80 miles an hour. The second raid wag made about 11 o’clock on Sunday night, when the aeroplanes and batteries attacked him. A number of bombs were dropped, but it is believed that the damage was small. The Paris newspapers demand vigorous reprisals for the. raid. THE RAID ON FRIEBURC. | ______ London, January 10. Official; At Frieburg Commander Reid conducted a dirigible and diopped 38 bombs on the station and in ill j tary establishments, doing senous damage.