IN THE AIR.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1916, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

RAID ON PARIS. DURING A FOQ. Paris, Jan. .10. There were many victims in the raid. Oni' bomb killed several persons and did considerable damage to property. Thirteen bombs were dropped and nine houses wrecked. Seven persons were killed, the majority in the houses; none were in the street. Twenty were injured. MM. Poincare and Mnhvy visited the stricken centres. The bombs were very powerful. One uprooted and hurled a tree twenty yards 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 his wife were among the killed. Fifteen casualties are mentioned, including some killed. Disregarding the warning to take cover, the crowds rushed the boulevards and watched the, skies. A thick mist overhung the city to a height of 20110 icet, diminishing the penetrative powers of the searchlights ami hampering the work of the anti-aircraft guns and chasing aeroplanes.

The Zeppelins wpre flying at a great Aeight and were fired upon as they disappeared. The victims at one point Were fifteen: elsewhere a man, three women, and two children were killed and others injured, by the collapse of a house. Paris. Later. Twenty-four people were killed and i' injured by the raid.

FURTHER PARTICULARS. ZEPPELIN'S MURDEROUS WORK. WOMEN AND CHILDREN SUFFER. Received Jan. 31, 8.35 p.m, London, Jan. .If). The Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent says that a single Zeppelin got over the French lines and dropped a dozen bombs, destroying nine houses, hilling twenty-five people, and seriously '.rounding thirty others. It succeeded in returning. The Zeppelin was 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. The Paris streets were immediately darkened. Thousands of people blocked the thoroughfares, but, curiously enough, all 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. 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, 8 soldier »nd his daughter. The explosion shattered a wall, fatally crushing two :,women and children wlto were sheltering. Their bodies were shockingly mutilated. Renter says that one bomb fell on the roof of the Metropolitan railway, while others pierced or destroyed a threestore v and a five-storey building. One failed to explode. •THE RAIDER RETURNS. ■■-,., Reecived Jan. 31, f1.55 p.m. "•''"' London, Jan. 31. A Zeppelin again raided Paris on Sunday night, but the damage is unknown.

THE SUBURBS VISITED. LITTLE DAMAGE BY SECOND RAID. Received Feb, 1, 12.45 a.m. Paris, Jan. 31. Saturday's raider bombed Batignolles, Ceincy, Neuilly, Courbevoie, Asnieres, and St. Germain. Le Temps says that one aviator pursued the Zeppelin for fifty minutes. It is believed that the Zeppelin was flying at 80 miles an hour. The second raid wa6 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. • REPRISALS DEMANDED. Received Jan. .11, !>.30 p.m. London, Jan. 31. The Paris newspapers demand vinous reprisals for the raid. THE VISIT TO FRIEBURG. " London, Jan. 30. Official: At Freiburg Commander Reid conducted a dirigible and dropped US bombs on the station and military establishments, doing serious damage.