THE PARIS RAID

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 150, 14 March 1918, Page 7

THE PARIS RAID

SIXTY AEROPLANES -CROSS FRENCH j LINES . j GERMANS LOSE FOUR ■ MACHINES " : Paris, March 12. : Official.—A Ootha was brought down. \ in flames fivo kilometres from Cliateau ; Thierry (fifty-two miles north-east of : I'aris). . '■'' ',-,.■, Tho raid began/at five o clock in the evening, and ended at midnight. Sixty ■ aeroplanes, in seven squadrons, crossed ; tho French lines, though barrages of ■■ great intensity were put up. A few reached Paris and demolished several | buildings and set fire to others.—Aus.,- ; N.Z. Cable Assn.-Router, ■ • \ London, March 12. , The Germans.Jqsfcjtflur. aeroplanes in ; the raid on Paris.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable : Assn. : 66 PEOPLE KILLED IN A PANIC OTHER CASUALTIES: 34 KILLED, 79 INJURED. (Roc. March 13, 9.30 p.m.) ' Paris, March 12. As the result of a panic at the entrance to a raid shelter at an underground railway in last night's raid 66 peoplo were suffocated or trampled to death. The other casualties are umv found to total U killed and 79 injured, including six killed, and seven [ injured at a. hospital.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN REPOrToN THE RAID ATTACKS ON GERMAN TOWNS. ■ (Rec. March 13, 8.20 p.m.) \ London, March 12. ; A German official report states: ".yesterday night wo copiously and sue- ; cessfully ijombeii Paris in retaliation ■ for enemy attacks on March 9 and 10 \ on .Stuttgart, Esslingen, Inicrtuerheim, and Mainz."—Aus.-N:Z: Cable Assn.Reuter. ...•-■' • THURSDAY'S RAID ON LONDON TWENTY KILLED AND FORTY- . j THREE INJURED. ; (Rec. March 13, 8.20.p.m.) \ London, March 12. ; The Press Bureau reports that the ■ air raid on London on March 7 killed , nine men, eight -women, and three chil- ; dren, and injured- forty-three.—Aus.- : N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. ' ; ZEPPELIN RAID IN YORKSHIRE ■ . (Rec. March 13,11.45 p.m.) ; London, March 13. i There lias been a Zeppelin raid in j I Yorkshire.—United -Service. .: THE NAPLES RAID ; SIXTEEN KILLED AND FORTY | INJURED. ; Naples, March 12. Sixteen people were killed and forty j injured in the air raid.—Reuter.