Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-31 | Page 2 | Check Air Raid on French Capital

CHECK I RAID I FRENCH CAPITAL One German Craft Brought Down; None Fly Over the City. PARIS, May 30. An enemy airplane was brought down by French anti-aircraft guns during an attempted raid on Paris last night. None of the German machines was able to fly over the city. A few bombs were dropped in the suburbs. The following official statement was issued early today: i "Enemy airplanes were most active last night and bombed various localities behind the front. Several were observed making toward Paris, and an alarm was given at 11:24 o'clock. The air defense organization got to work and no enemy machine got past our curtain of fire and none flew over Paris. A few bombs were dropped in the suburbs. "An enemy airplane was struck by a shell from an an ti -aircraft battery and fell in flames. 'All clear' was sounded at 12:34 a. m. PARIS, May 30. The removal of children chil-dren from Paris was begun this morning, morn-ing, when 1000 children from the Mont-martre Mont-martre district of the city were placed on board a special train bound for a vacation colony in the department of Alliers, in central France, This is the first action taken under a plan for removing Paris children from the possibility of harm from a long-range gun shell striking a school filled with pupils, as a church where worship was in progress was struck on Good Friday. PARIS. May 30. The bombardment of Paris by the German long-range gun, which was interrupted early in the day, was resumed at sunset.