Arizona republican., 1916-01-31

covered Paris completely and the searclliehts were unable to pierce this wall. As for the land artillery, it was confronted with absolute invisbility, making it impossible 10 fire.
 All the aeroplanes were put into op- eration when the alarm of the presence of q Zeppelin was given but only the aviators of the sector entered by the Zeppelin were able to perceive it. Even most of these got only a glimpse. as the Zeppelin was not using search lights. The aviators in the other sec tors were able only to remain in the air and guard their districts, which they did for several hours
 Five French aeroplanes are said to have fired on the Zeppelin, one of them pursuing it toward the west for more than fifty minutes. Thirty French machines took part in the hunt for the raider.
 Frightened doubtless by the numer- ous war planes rising toward it, the Zeppelin wheeled and drove at full speed northward, dropping in it's train in the darkness a cargo of about three and one-nalf tons of bombs. Then continuing it's flight, 14,00O feet above the earth the airship vanished. Parisians had beer warned half an hour before by fire engines rushing through the streets trumpeting the call known as stand to arms of the pres ence of the raider. The electric street lights went out and police notified careless householders to close their shutters and darken their windows immediately. It was still early in the night. close to 10 o'clock, and many people were in the streets, the cafes were open and the moving picture the aters and playhouses were still enter taining their spectators and audiences Then, in all parts of the city could be heard the Whir of numerous aeroplane i propel,ors, while everywhere people went npOn the balconies to watch for | Zeprelins.
 Few Parisians appeared to believe ; the roiders were likely to come as they l had been turned back many times pre- vious But suddenly in one of the ] nOrthe9 stern parts of Paris there was l a great flare in the sky as the Zeppelin 1 dropped an illuminatant SO that those on the air ship might see whether they into street, crushing through into the
 subway and tearing a hole 15 feet in l diameter but injuring no one. Quickly l T series of other GetOnations occurred sounding dully throughout the city 1 One of the missiles fell on an isolat ed l house occupied by a Sing'e fami-y. The | building was bisected one end being | demolished and it's occupants hurled | far into an open lot and killed. Tho sharply and a bedroom on the second l floor was left intact with it's Occu-
 pants uninjured The floor was carried 1 away under the head of the bed. leav 1 ing the bed balanced on the jagged | edge of the ruins with a nine year old boy in it unharmed.
 1 Tho Zeppelin must have been going
 at top speed in that neighborhOOd, fOr | the nearest trace of it beyond was a 1 quarter of a mile away. where q bomb | fell in the center of a thick stone wal l and cutting a big hole out of it as l cleanly as if it had been done by q kniie. dug through the pavement deep l ly iato the earth, causing a bad cave | in.
 h more ropulous quarter homl l struck a six-story apartment building l occupied by the families Of wn~king ! men. cutting it in two on the line of I If bA ttTl rett t1 cellar, hurrying ten victims
 under the debris of the central part o 1 the structure. The street front wa: untouched and on the other side of tht gap the six kitchens of the building. {
 top one another, were left open to tht
 weather with the ranges and utensil:
 in plain view and apparently undis turbed.
 Ttis quarter was besieged all tho
 morning by dense crowds that wer, held at the street corners by the DO lice, none but the city authorities, rep
 resentatives of the government an,
 nress cards being allowed to inspec
 the ruins.
 1 Tine greatest thrOng was in the stree
 vhere men from the municipal chem
 ical laboratory were carefully eXamin
 ing bomb weighing nearly 600 pounds
 that had fallen in the courtyard of ;
 factory and failed to explode. Tn crowd at one time broke through tn
 rolice line and elbowed up to the foot
 board of the official motor car to Se
 2 near view of the monster.
 l Altogether q dozen bombs Weighin,
 about coo pounds each were dropped 1 None of the fatalities occurred in tn,
 open streets. the majority of the vie
 tims being killed in their beds.
 President Poincaire, who, in com pany with the military governor O
 Paris and the prefect of police, visited
 the scene of the wreckage caused b.
 some of the bombs shortly after mid
 night, seemed greatly moved by wha
 he saw. one of the houses that h
 visited was that of Police Sergeant Bi dault, who had just reached his l5m
 and was killed by a bomb which serl ously injured has sister-i law.
 The raid lasted about one minut , and half while in the first visit c I.eppelins to Paris, on March 21, 191 I four of these aircraft were over or i . the neighborhood of the capital fC nearly two hours They came at tha time under entirely different atmos
 rheriC conditions, being plainly visibl in clear sky. Last night the fo l seriously interferred with the work ( , the Paris aerial guard
 The fact that only one German ma l chine appeared leads to the belit \ that the Zeppelin was making a re l connoitering trip and the suppOsitiO