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Show Thirteen Persons Killed and Thirty-nine Injured; In-jured; Ten or Twelve Squadrons of Aeroplanes Aero-planes Participate; One Machine, Containing Commander, Brought Down ; Crew of Four Burn to Death. ENEMY AIRDROMES ARE BOMBARDED S i x t y-o n e Defensive j Planes Engage Attackers, Attack-ers, Forcing Them to i ! Discharge Explosives j in Open Fields in Or- 1 1 der to Escape French ! Fliers. PARIS, March 10. It now Is re- ported officially that thirteen per- ; 'j sons were killed and fifty wounded : : in the air raid. ! PARIS, Saturday. March f. Ten or twelve squadrons of bombing aeroplanes i, i participated in the German raid on Paria ;' last night, according to official information. informa-tion. The casualties were nine killed and thirty-nine persons wounded. One of the raiding machines was destroyed. de-stroyed. An official statement says the aeroplane of the Got ha type was found In the forest of Compiegne, where it had i fallen while returning from the raid on ' the capital. The machine had been demolished de-molished and its crew of four burned j i to death. 1 ' ' ' Some of the raiders came by the way nf the valley of the Oise, othersfollowed the route of the Marne, while still others came from the direction of Greill. An official account of the raid says that the alarm was sounded at S:37 o'clock Friday evening and was preceded by cannonading. French artillery opened flro at 8:54 o'clock, producing a violent curtain cur-tain of fire from all military posts in the regions north and northeast of Paris, which was maintained without interruption interrup-tion until the raiders departed. Sixty-one defensive airplanes from th entrenched camps of Paris tooK the air. A large number of enemy machines were repulsed by the aerial defense and did not succeed in reaching Paris. These machines were forced to drop bombs in considerable numbers in open field.3 and in the suburbs. Although the ra idors came In larger , numbers than on any preceding raid, the bombs dropped In the inhabited districts were far less numerous and they did vexy little or no damage. President pomca re visited the places where bombs had fallen and spoke a kindly kind-ly word of emountEieinent to the people whose hornea had been destroyed. JDuri ng t lie raid on I'a ris. French aviators avi-ators near the front, who kept in constant communication with the capital, took th air and bombarded the airdromes from which the enemy machines arose. New arrangements for sheltering the people and other precautions worked well and the authorities are generally sa.f.iffied that the effects of the raid were reduced to the lowest decree possible. The American Hed Cross mobilized 105 men a I. t ho first wa rning a nd ten -a i s sped off to points where bombs had fallen. COMMANDER OF HUN AIRMEN IS AMONG THE DEAD GRAND HEADQUARTERS OF THK KRKXCH ARMJES IN FRANCE, Saturday, Satur-day, Ma r"lk . The comma nder of the-'Jerrnan the-'Jerrnan airplones which attempted to lerrorize par'?. Captain prit.c Eckstein and three co:rn j n ons. one of whom was an of'icer of rbc mpr-ror's white Cuirassiers Cuiras-siers f roirr 'A 1 1 m. wcv- killed when tlvdr ma.'diin'--' rrrc-hr-d in Mt Compiegne ' '. forest. U If qucsi ion? hie whether the comnianrler -vr-r reached Pa ris. , i It is b'beved that mofH of thfc bombs ' the machine carried were dropped after 1 it was hit. during the course of it& txtp, ! (Continued oc Pa Two.). C1TI OF FIRE DEFEATS 6BWMB (Continued from Page One.) but several were still attached to the aeroplane when the correspondent saw It lying half buried in the earth. Two of the aviators were underneath the motor and the other two were -near by. The German machine was of the latest lat-est model. It was built at Priedricks-hafen. Priedricks-hafen. The wings had a stretch of eighty feet. Ten or twelve squadrons participated in the raid, proceeding toward Paris by three different routes in successive waves. The remarkably effective co-operation of the antiaircraft batteries, the defense escadrilles and the searchlight prevented much domage and stopped many of the raiders from reaching the capital. |
