Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-31

Paris, Jan. 3o.-Twenty-fou persons were killed and twenty-seven injured in the Zeppelin raid over Saturday night according to a statement today Ten of the wounded were placed in hospitals owing to severity of their hurts.
 Chased by French Aeroplanes. Thirty French aeroplanes searched the remote air regions above Paris late tonight for a Zeppelin raider or whose appearance warning had been given. By the time it had reached the edge of the old quarters of the city several of the airmen were able to make out it's pale yellow shape 14,000 feet from the earth. Frightened, doubtless, by the numerous war planes rising towards it, the Zeppelin wheel ed and drove at full speed northward. dropping in its wake in the darkness a cargo of 1-2 tons of bombs. Then continuing it's flight at great altitude, the airship vanished
 Had Been Warned.
 The Parisians had been warned a half an hour before firing and brought the streets trumpeting the call known as Stand to arms of the Cpresence of the raider. The electric lights went out and policemen cautioned careless householders to close their shutters and darken their windows and imme- diately. It was still early in the night, close to ten o'cock and many persons were in the streets. the cafes were open and the moving picture theatres and playhouses still entertaining their audience. Then, in all parts of the city could be heard the Whirf of num- erous aeroplane propellors, while ev- anywhere people went upon the ball. comics to watch for Zeppelins.
 Series of Detonations.
 Few Parisians appeared to believe the raiders were likely to come, as they had been turned back many times previously. But suddenly in the northeast of Paris there was a great flare in the sky as the Zeppelin drop ped an illuminant so that those in the airship might see whether they were over the city. Then a bomb fell into
 street, crashing through into the Subway and tearing hole Is feet in diameter, but injuring no one. Quick 1y a series of other detonations oc- cured, sounding duly throughout the city.
 House Cut In Two
 One of the missiles fell upon an isolated house, occupied by a single family. The building was bisected, one end being demolished and it's occu- pants hurled far out into an open lot and killed. The other end of the house was cut off sharply and a bedroom on the second floor was left intact with it's occupants uninjured. The floor was carried away under the head of the bed, leaving the bed balanced on the jagged edge of the ruins with a nine year old boy in it unharmed.
 zeppeIin Going at Top Spted.
 The Zeppelin must have been going at top speed in that neighborhood for the nearest trace of it beyond was a quarter of a mile away where bomt fell in the center of a thicvk stone wall and oI1ffinp hicr hnI0 of if as cleanly as if it had been done by a knife dug through the pavement deer into the earth, causing bad cave-in
 Victims Burned in Debris.
 In more populous qaurter bomt struck a six-story apartment building occupied by the families of working men, cutting it in two from garret tC cellar, burying ten victims under the debris of the central part of the struc- ture. The street front was untouched and on the other side ow the gap six kitchens of the build ing, one ato p the other, were Jeff open to the weather with the ranges and utensils in plan view and ap- parently undiSturbed. This quarter was besieged all the morning by dense crowds which held at the street corner by the police none but the city au- thorities of the government and news paper men with identification cards being allowed to inspect the ruins.
 Bomb Weighed Nearly 600 Pounds.
 The greatest throng was in thu street where men from the municipa chemical laboratory were carefully ex amining a bomb weighing nearly 60t pounds that had fallen in the cour yard of a factory and failed to explode The crowd at one time broke througl the police line and e1bowed up to tn, footboard of the official motor car t, get near view of the monster.
 Killed In Their Beds.
 Altogether a dozen bombs weighinj about 500 pounds each, were dropped None of the fatalities occurred in tn open streets, the mapority of the vic tims being killed in their beds.
 A fog of considerable density hunl over Paris at the time of the raid.
 President Poincare, who in compan, with the military governor of Pari and the prefect of police, visited tn scene of wreckage caused by somt o the bombs shortly after midnigh seemed greatly moved by what h saw. One of the houses that he view ed was that of Police Sergeant Bi dault, who had just reached his hom and who was killed by a bomb whic at the same time seriously injured hi sister-in-law.