THE ZEPPELIN RAID.

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1916, Page 5

THE ZEPPELIN RAID.

THE ViSITTO PARSS.

VIGOROUS REPRISALS DEMANDED.

(PEB BEESa ASSOCIATION—COEYEIGHT]

LONDON, January 30

The Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent says that a single Zeppelin got over the French lines and dropped a dozen bonibs, destroying nine houses and killing twenty-five and seriously wounding thirty. It succeeded in returning safely. It was first seen over Lafertmilon at 9 o'clock, and in a few minutes thirty aeroplanes were searching for it. Five machines sighted the raider and discharged alarm rockets. The Zeppelin then rained bombs on Paris, where the streets were immediately darkened. Thousands blocked the thoroughfares, but curiously enough all the victims were under cover. The area bombed is half a mile wide, and is a working-class district.

'All the bombs fell within three minutes. One penetrated a mac adam road, opened an undergroimd railway and twisted the rails, where a train had just passed. One struck a house and killed a woman and child. The building had been packed, but fortunately the majority rushed into the streets. Two bombs fell in a narrow street completely demolishing two housos and killing two women and two children and a soldier and his daughter. The explosion shattered a wall, fatally crushing two women and children, who were sheltered. Their bodies were shockingly mutilated. Reuter's correspondent says that one bomb fell on the roof of the metropolitan railway and others pierced or destroyed three and five-storey buildings. One failed to explode. Paris newspapers demand vigorous reprisals for the raid. _ A Zeppelin again raided Paris on Sunday night, but the damage is unknown. PARIS, January 31.

Saturday's raider bombed Batignolles, Clieny, Neuilly, Oourbevoie, Asnieres and Saint Germin. The Le Temps states that one aviator pursued the Zenpelin for fifty minutes. It is believed Hint the Zeppelin was flying eighty miles? an hour.

The second raid occurred about 11 o'clock on Sunday night. Aei'oplane batteries attacked them. A number of bombs were dropped. It is believed that the damage was small.