ANOTHER AIR RAID ON PARIS FAILS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 71, 24 March 1915, Page 5

ANOTHER AIR RAID ON PARIS FAILS.

• ZEPPELINS" DRIVEN OFF BY THE AIR PATROL " '■ FRENCH REPLY TO THE ENEMY'S RAID. PARIS, March 23. A Zeppelin threw three bombs on Villers Cotteret, south of Compiegne, and proceeded towards Paris. Its approach was signalled at nine o'clock on Monday night, when it was driven off. Several Xaubes attempted to approach Amiens, but were driven off. They dropped bombs on Doulens without doing any harm. French aviators replied to the Paris raid by dropping bombs on a .German aerodrome at Gits, in Belgium, and on the railway station at Lichterfelde, in Flanders, Fssen, Merkj, and Wyfuge. At Roye 500 arrows were dropped from a German captive balloon. Tn the Champagne bombs were dropped on Bazincourt station, and on German batteries at Bumont and Vailly. Bombs were also dropped on Cernay station, Mulhem barracks, Staden station, and several camps, and also on an aviation ground near Valenciennes. It is officially reported that owing' to defeats at La Boiselle, the Germans bombarded the civil hospital at Albert, despite the fact that a Bed Gross flag was flying over it. . Five old men were killed and several wounded.