PARIS ZEPPELIN RAID.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13999, 1 February 1916, Page 5

PARIS ZEPPELIN RAID.

MANY KILLED AND INJURED

POWERFUL BOMBS DROPPED

HOUSES WRECKED

DEFENCE MEASURES HAMPERED

BY FOG

Paris, Jan. 3d

Tweuty-fom1 persons'were killed and 27 injured by the Zeppelin raid on Saturday evening. There was also considerable damage to property. Thirteen bombs fell on nine houses, which v*ere wrecked, seven -persons being killed. The majority were fin the houses and none were in the .-street. Twenty were injured. President Poincare visited the stricken /♦centres. The bombs were the most.powerful. One-unrooted and hurled a tree 20, yards to the roof of a building. An-. other injured 20 people. ..... ! Disregarding the warning to take cover crouds rushed to the boulevards ,and watched the skies. A thick mist overhung the city at a •height of 2000 feet, diminishing the penetrative powers of the searchlights and hampering the work of the antiaircraft guns and the chasing aero-, modern*" "os*

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planes. A Zeppelin flying at a great height was fired upon as it disappeared.

.The victims at one point numbered 15, including some who were killed. Elsewhere a man, three women and two children were killed, and others were killed by the collapse of a house.

In the moi'ning it .was announced that the raid had ended. A police officer and his wife were among the killed.