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Show Coblenz in Germany Made to Feel the Horrors of German Ger-man Methods. LONDON, March 12. An official statoment on aerial operations says: "There has been poor visibility, but over 500 bombs have been dropped on sidings and ammunition depots at Aulnoye. southeast of Maubeuge, and other depots south of Valenciennes, southeast of Cambral and south of Doual. "In the air fighting ten enemy ma-chinos ma-chinos wero brought down and seven others wero disabled; a German observation ob-servation balloon also was brought down in flames. Two British machines are missing. In night bombing 200 bombs wero dropped on sidings and munitions dump northeast of St. Quontin. Tho enemy also dropped a fow bombs during the night, but lost a four-seated machine, which landed In our line, the occupants being taken prisoner. "On Monday we made the third daylight day-light raid on Germany in four days. On this occasion factories, stations and barracks at Coblenz were attacked at-tacked and over a ton of bombs were dropped. Bursts wore seen on all the objectives, causing two fires, and a hit on a building In the southwest corner of tho town created a very large explosion. A few enemy machines ma-chines were encountered. All of our machines returned safely. oo : WHEN JAIL LOOMS BRIGHT. Mr. Younghusband reached home late for dinner. "I got caught for speeding on the way home," he explained rather sheepishly. sheep-ishly. "Have to appear tomorrow morning and get 'ten dollars or fifteen days.' " Mrs. Younghusband fervently clapped clap-ped two blistered little hands. "What a providence!" she cried devoutly. de-voutly. "Tako the fifteen days, John! The cook has just left." Harper's Magazine, oo GOOD SHOT FOR ONE CENTIMETER The 'flame leaps from a monolith centimeter gun, hurling a ton of shattering shat-tering death at somo gentle village twonty miles away. The flamo leaps and licks into tho heavens and the noiso of it deafens men for miles around, shaking the earth and rattling the pots and pans in London over the water. Copyright, 1918, by J. Keeley.) San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Supplement oo "Alice, if I told you that I loved you dearly, that there was no other girl in all the world for me, would you promise prom-ise to be mine?" "Would you mind telling me first whether that is a proposal or a hypothetical hypo-thetical question?" Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. |