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Show GERMAN III BOMBARDS W , FRENCHGAPITAL Deadly Missile Thrown Decapitates Aged Solicitor Solici-tor and Shatters Limbs of Granddaughter. HOUSES NEARBY ARE SLIGHTLY DAMAGED People of Paris Remain Calm and Unmoved Throughout Ordeal; Flies High, By a P. BERTELLI. CSpwcW CjlMo Arrxngenwirt -wttb Lonflon DaJtr Telagrajh anfl International News Srrric,) PARIS, Sept. 27. A Taube aeroplane which flew over Paris this morning dropped five bombs. One struck the intersection in-tersection of the ATenue Trocadero and the Rue Freycinet Three landed in different dif-ferent streets in the Trocadero quarter and the fifth shell in the Bols du Boulogne, Bou-logne, The German aviator apparently flew at a height of about 10,000 feet and was Invisible In-visible in the dense mist. When the bombs began to shower on the fashionable fashion-able residences at 11:30 o'clock the noiBe was deafening, resembling a bombardment. bombard-ment. The first bomb thrown, the one which landed in the Avenue Trocadero, wrought deadly havoc. Worshipers were throng-) lng out of the American church and the church of St, Pierre du ChaiUot, nearby, when the death-dealing missile launched by the hidden enemy aloft swooped down among them with a fearful crash. An aged solicitor and Ms young granddaughter grand-daughter walking hand-ln-hand along the avenue were struck down by fragments of th e explod 1 ng bo mb. Aged Man Killed. The aged man was decapitated and his body was terribly riddled, while the little ; girl lay beside his body with both her legs practically severed above the knees. A few feet away the facade of the , Prince of Monaco's mansion was shattered shat-tered by grape shot from the exploding bomb. All the windows were broken and the walls were punctured, but the mansion man-sion happily was unoccupied except by the caretaker, who escaped uninjured. The American church, about a hundred yards distant, was shaken to Its founda- 1 tion by the deafening explosion. Frank Gould's residence and the statue of General Gen-eral Washington, also nearby, were within with-in range, but escaped undamaged and the same can be said of the chancellery i of the American embassy and Embassador Embas-sador Ilerrlck's mansion, where pictures . and furniture were shaken by the force of the explosion as If an earthquake had ! visited the capital. ! Aviator Escapes. While the police rushed to remove the victims the German aviator Hew off, still unseen. The bomb evidently was Intended In-tended to destroy the Kiffel tower, but owing to the great height at which he was flying and the blinding mint, the pilot missed his aim by several hundred yards. The second bomb fell on the roof nf a house formerly occupied by the Austrian Baron Schmatzer. It demolished two chimney chim-ney pots. Attachej to th missile was an orifkunme of German colors five feet long. The bomb was in the form of a small saucepan and a note attached said: "Be careful; catch hold only by the handle." Exploded Too Soon. The three other bombs In the Trocadero Tro-cadero section fell as follows: One in the Kue Vinuso, near the Benjamin Fra nklin Ftat uo and the residence of Georges Clemeiiceau; another in the Hue Marignan of the Chumps Ilysees, and the third in the Hue des Brondes Vahnore. near the Chateau de la Muctte. the residence resi-dence of the Km press Josephine. AD these bombs exploded too soon to do great damage. The fifth liomb exploded among a herd of cattle pa-itured tn the Hols du Boulogne. Bou-logne. One cow was killrd. Tills afternoon the population of Paris remained remarkably calm and unmoved, un-moved, although thousands gathered in the Champa Klysees nd other open spaces watching the ky. GERMAN ZEPFELIN VISITS SEVERAL BELGIAN CITIES LONDON-, Sept. 27, p. m. A Ger man Zeppelin made a bomb dropping tour last night, visiting severnl Belgian titles, aeording to a dispatch to th Peutc-r TelKiam company, from Ostend. The (Continued on Page Two.) GEHMANS FIGHT NIGHT AND DAY TO EMBATTLE Commander Gives Orders to Take No Rest Until Engagement Breaks i Allies' Resistance. (Continued from Page One.) French and British force brought up by rail. Recurring references ' to hayonet charges seem to prove conclusively that . this picturesque and romantic phase of warfare, which it was thought had been I killed by the advent of the great guns j and other equipment of modern armies,! is not all a thing of the past. j The French official communication says that at pome points the trendies are only a hundred metres apart; thus a small portion nf the millions engaged have known the stimulation and thrill of hand-to-hand fighting. Fierce Fighting. Dispatches from Petrograd report that fierce fighting still goes on in Gallcia, though Cracow, toward which the Russian Rus-sian hosts have been marching ever since Przemysl was invested and the communications communi-cations cut, has not yet been attacked. To the north, the German invasion is assuming vaster proportions, notwithstanding notwith-standing the Russian war office insists that the Germans are being repulsed at the frontier. It is estimated here t hat the German front extends from the Baltic Bal-tic coast to the southern boundary of Silesia, a distance of about 400 miles. What opposition the Germans have met is believed to have been little more than a cavalry screen. The fighting centered again today along the River Niemen, from Suwalki. Russian Poland, to Sopotz-kin. Sopotz-kin. Tiie official statement issued tonight to-night at Petroerad said that tiie German artillery had been unable to assume the offensive at Sopotzkin and tiiat their retreat re-treat was more or less general. Little Naval News. There has been a dearth of naval news in the last twenty-four hours, and although al-though the fall of the Austrian seaport Cattaro has been reported imminent, for several days, that event has not yet been recorded. Tee German emperor's illness, variously vari-ously described last week as a severe cold and influenza, is now said to be inflammation inflam-mation of the lungs, due to the emperor falling into a water-filled trench, j To the cholera . heretofore reported : among the Austrian troops, has been j added, according to an Antwerp dispatch, typhus fever, which is said to be raging in the German camps around Brussels land near Tennonde. It is reported that i several hundred Germans have already succumbed to this disease. Quick to realize, as did Germany, the necessity of a hich birthrate to offset the deaths due to the war. a movement has been started in Kurope to reduce the mar-nace mar-nace fees and to encourage soldiers and sailors to take wi es before leawnc for the front. The archbishop of Canterbury has addressed an open letter on the subject sub-ject to a London paper. In Germany a similar movement was inaugurated soma time ago. |