AIR RAID.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 2

AIR RAID.

FURTHER PARTICULARS FROM FRANCE. A SINGLE ZEPPELIN PAYS A VISIT. ■'JO AEROPLANES GIVE- CHASE. WORKING-CLASS AREA BOMBED. London, January oU. The Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent says a single Zeppi.'liii got over the French lines ami .dropped ■a dozen bombs, destroying nine houses, killing 25 people, and seriously wounding 30. The ZepprUn ,-ucceeded in returning. It wns first seen above La Fertomilon at ( J o'clock. In a> few minutes UU aeroplanes were search ing. Five Mgbtctl the niiiler, discharged alarm rockets, aaul then rained down bombs. Tho streets of Paris were immediately darkened. Thousands blocked tho thoi'ouyhi'ares, but curiously all the victims wore under cover.

Thei siren, bombed is half a mile wide, and a working-class district-. All tlio bombs fell within three uiuiiites. One penetrated a macadam surface, opened the underground railway, and twisted the rails where atrain had just, passed. One struck a. house and killed a woman and child. Tho -building had been packed, but fortunately the majority rushed into tlit< streets. Two bombs fell in a narrow street, completely demolishing two houses, and killing two women, two children, a soldier and 'hi.s daughter. The explosion shattered the wall, fatally crushing two women ■ami children who were sheltering. The bodies were shockingly mutilated. A Renter message says one bomb fell on the roof of the Metropolitan railway and others pierced or destroyed threo and five-sto.rey buildings. One failed to expode. Paris., January 31. .iSwlurd'ay's raider bombed Ba.tignolles,, Olieny, Nouilty, Courbevoie. Asnicrc-s, and St. Geminin. Le Temps .says one aviator pursued the Ze-ppeJin for 5(1 minutes. It is believed the Zeppelin was flyirt"; 80 miles an hour. T.he second raid occurred iat about 11 o'doek on Sunday 'nifcbt. Aeroplanes and bti.M.erios attacked. A. .number of bombs trere dropped. It is believed (be damage ivas small GOOD NEWS FKOM (AUKKCK. SUCCISSSFUI, AKIMAL HA IDS. Salonika., January 30. TUe Fjench raid at I'axahli desti-oy-ed SUO tents. Tho military casualties of tho air raid at Monaslir were 500. i •riio occupation of Karabiirno was necessary owing to a. (<erniiin submarino torpedoing a Hiiii.sb transport with mules on board a few days ago while in Greek waters. The vessel was beachedj and most of the mule l - wore saved.