WAR NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 4 February 1918, Page 3

WAR NEWS.

RUSSIA A XI) IM'.M AX lA.

(,A.— X.Z Cable Assn. and Reiner.) NEW YORK, Urida v. The I .'niii'd J'ress correspondoiil ol' Pel rograd interviewed M. Trotsky, who declared that the tonus of president \\ ilson and Mr Moyd (ieorge wore merely .scraps of paper, M. Trotsky lias issued statement that Russia 7s" virtually a( war wilh Rumania.

I XTKUKST OX I,OA XS.

Aiisl.rniinii- N.Z. Ojtblo Association.) .PARIS, Friday. Tho Minister ol' I'mianee lias announced that it. is believed that the succeed inu; Government in Russia will continue to pay interest on loans; therefore tin- government would pay interest on Russian securities held in France.

A BRITISH RAID.

LONDON, Friday. The Admiralty reports; Our wava! Aircraft bonified Kugel aerodrome ;Vnd dump. Direct hits were. made and fires started. All our machines returned safely.

ALLISD COXFEBENCE.

Australian—N.Z. Oablo Association.) ' .LONDON, Friday. Mr Bonar Law, speaking in the House of Commons, denied that the Allies' Conference at Paris proposed to issuo a joiut war aims. 'V' He. considered that our declarations were already explicit iuid moderate.

THE PARIS RAID.

■&1 »».*i —- - s|' <aHwblo Association.) LONDON, Friday. French official: The casualties in the air raid wero.yc dead, including 22, in Paris and II in the .suburbs and 190 injured, including 11/> in Paris and 75 in the suburbs. ' Many women and- children were victims, . Three hospitals were struck, and one set on fire. Sixty French aeroplanes ascended.

A MURDEROUS RAID.

j PARIS, Friday. The theatres had emptied when the most murderous raid Paris has yet suffered commenced. It is estimated that sixty Cothaw attacked, operating in squadrons of ten, aind sweeping over Paris in succession. Each squadron remained until heplaced by another ten, hence tho long dnratiom of the raid. Ideal weather favoured the. savage enterprise. It was a glorious moonlight night, with a thin mist over the ground, the last vestige of the fog winch aided tho Oolhad io'elude the. aeroplane patrols. Thirty French aviators immediately went up, amda number of desperate duels wero fought. Altogether seventy bombs were dropped, but many failed to explode. The bombs were of three kinds, the smallest weighing twenty pounds and the biggest 150 pounds. Parisians were in no way frightened, but the raid angered everyone, and ended all peace talk.