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Show Safeguarding Paris. PARIS, March 24. The government govern-ment has decided that the bombardment bom-bardment of Paris by long distance dis-tance guns shall not interrupt the normal life of the capital, but that the population shall be warned of the bombardment by distinctive means, differing from the usual warning for an air raid. Drums will be beaten and the police will sound whistles. The public service, the subway trains, the tramways and the automobile busses will continue to he ope rat-' ed normally. The mew warningis toie known. as "warning number 3." It will mean that any formation of crowds in the streets is prohibited and that all shelters except the subway stations will be open. The end of any land of a raid will be announced as before by a special trumpet call and the ringing ring-ing of the church bells. The subways and tramways began be-gan running again before noon today to-day and in the afternoon the streets were still in a still greater state of animation. LONDON, March 24. Router's correspondent at British headquarters head-quarters reported that among tho British captured machine guns are some that were identified as having hav-ing been used in the Balkans last year. Tho Germans made attempts Friday night to cross the Somme by means of four bridges. The attempts, however, were detected and frustrated with loss by the British artillery fire, this message states. ' All the roads in the rear of the German advance, the dispatch continues, are blocked by columns of troops, guns and transport vehicles ve-hicles furnishing targets upon which the British artillery is making deadly play. Rough estimates esti-mates of the casualties inflicted vary between thirty and fifty per cent of all the enemy divisions identified. "I give these figures for what they are worth," the correspondent correspon-dent adds. "They are probably based mainly upon statements made by prisoners." BERLIN, March 24. British Admiralty Per Wireless Press. Victory in the battle which has been raging near Monchy, Cambrai, Cam-brai, St. Quentin and La Fere is claimed for the German army in today's headquarters' statement. The British Third and Fourth armies and parts of Franco-American reserves which had been brought up are declared to have been beaten and to have been repulsed re-pulsed with the heaviest losses on the line from Bapaume to Bouch-evesnes Bouch-evesnes and behind the Somme between Peronne and Ham as well as at Chauny. |
