THE PARIS RAID.

Evening Star, Issue 16026, 1 February 1916, Page 3

THE PARIS RAID.

A CORRESPONDENTS ACCOUNT. LONDON. January 30. The 'Daily Chronicle's' Paris correspondent says that a single Zeppelin got over ttie French lines and dropped a dozen bombs, destroying nine houses, killing 25 persons, and seriously wounding 30. It succeeded in returuiiit;. The visitor was tir-t seen at T.afert Amilon at 9 o'clock. In a lev.- minutes 50 aeroplanes were searching. Five sighted the. raider and discharged alarm rockets. The Zeppelin then rained bombs on Paris. The streets were immediately darkened. Thousands blocked the thoroughfares, but. .•'iriously enough, ail the victims were under cover. The area tombed was half a mile wide, in tne working class district. All the bombs fell within three minutes. One penetrated the macadam, opened an underground railway, and twisted the rails where a train had just parsed. One struck a house and killed a woman and child. The building had been packed, but tornrnatelv the majority rushed into the streets. The Ttombs fell in a narrow street, completely demolishing .two houses, and killing two women, two children, and a, soldier and his daughter. Tne explosion shattered a vail, fatally Mushing the two women and children. wh"> were sheltering. 'Their bodies were shockingly mutilated. Beater's correspondent says that one bomb fell on the roof of the metropolitan railway, others pierced or destroyed three and five-story buildings, and ono failed to explode.