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Show FATE OF IWlT GRAPHSCALLY TOLD French Officer Describes Raid in Which U. S. Marines Perish. KILLED BY SAME BOMB German Aircraft Swoop Down Upon Streets of Boulogne. Ey HENRY G. WALES, International News Service Staff Correspondent. I'AI'.IS, Feb. 2:i A flight lieutenant of the Royal naval air f'-rvlce. who has Just arrivd In 1'aris on kIx dayn' leave, hnM given me firf-t pews of the big German Ger-man a:r raid on Boulogne two days before be-fore Christmas, when among the victims were fifteen Atnrlca n marines killed and a Hcore wounded. "The Huns came. onr just at 10 , o'clock at night," said the English hydroaeroplane hy-droaeroplane pilot, "and it proved to be 1 their most puree hsiul raid in point of I casualties, although no military damage was done. They kilk d nearly ir,0 persons, per-sons, some of whom were British, others French and or hers Belgian. All of the American marines were killed by the same bomb which dropped in the narrow nar-row stn- t leadine from the railroad station sta-tion to th-i bi I'ige in the old part of the r 1 1 . Going to Bakeshop. "The "Yanks," as we rail them, were all together, walking to a bakeshup that was open alout t he only place r,f any kind open in Boulogne at that hour of the r.iL'hi. Half a dozen bombf f.U in that street, and all the others were dn pped in that immediate winity. They wre-kd a eood many houses, but most of the victims were people who happened t- be m th Mr"! at that time. "A number of civilians were hit. including in-cluding wom-n and children, and several tiny babies. The Americans were buried with full nvhtary honors in the ceme-terv ceme-terv jut 011 tside the city. "Our Archies w---rc shootine like inad all the lime, and the roar of the puws drowned the noise of the Huns motors, and that' on reason why so many people didn't think old Fritz was so near. Our squadrons went up after them, too, and we knocked dmvn three of t he raiders lefore they eou'd get away. "Going bark over the line our guns brought down another, too. and the pilot and hnmb-dmnper were made prisoners. Thy were using a different type of ma-ehine ma-ehine thn the kuha that generally car-n'en car-n'en out the raids on England. This machine ma-chine was smaller than the Got ha, but speedier and evidently a faster climber. It ra it id fewer lM-mbs, but more powerful pow-erful ones tlu-.ii the old style bombing planes bad." |