Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1916-02-05
VISIT OF DIRIGIBLES FOLLOWS
CLOSELY THAT ON PARiS-SlX
OR SEVEN IN TIE RAID.
SLAVS PREPARE FOR winter
In France the Germans Have Taken
a Few Yards Of Trenches From the
F-ench-ltalians Aot'Ve-Rus-
SLAMS Capture Turks, Etc.
Latest News From War Fronts.

/ tacks on Paris by German dirigibles.
The British war office. which now
controls the defenses of London
against air attacks. announces that six
or seven aircraft took part in the lat
est raid. but the towns or villages
visited and the nature Of the damage
inflicted have not been made public.
/ At $40 Sunday night firemen dash
ed through the streets of Paris sound
Ing warnings Of another Zeppelin raid.
IN a few minutes the capital was en-
tirely dark. Crowds remained on the
Jouleyards watching the skies for the
appearance of German aircraft.
The Place de rOpera, which is gen
orally brilliantly lighted. was sudden
~ thrown into darkness, and police
men carrying poles hurried through
the streets extinguishing the gas
lights
1 \ Zeppelin came Sunday night to
the outskirts of Paris, but before
reaching the city itself. turned back.
Twenty-four persons were killed and
twent. seven injured in the Zeppelin
raid over Paris Saturday night, &C
cording to an official statement. Ten
of the wounded were placed in hos
pitfalls owing to the severity of their
hurts.
Warning of the appearance of the
Saturday raider was given by fire en-
gines rushing through the streets
trumpeting the call known as stand
to arms" The electric lights went
out and policemen cautioned careless
househOlders to close their shutters
and darken their windows imm ediate
ly.
1t was still early in the night, close
to 10 o'clock Saturday, and many per
sons were in the streets, the cafes
were open and the cinematograph the
aters and variety houses were still
entertaining their audiences, when in
all parts of the city was heard the
ominous sounds of the warning bugles,
succeeded by the nervous whirr of
thirty French aeroplanes which rose
/ swiftly in the remote air regions to
meet the winged enemy. Many per
sons sought balconies to watch for the
| coming of the raider.
By the time the Zeppelin had reach
ed the edge Of the old quarters of
the city, several of the airmen were
/ able to make out its pale yellow shape,
/ $4,000 feet from the earth Brighten
ed doubtless by the numerous war
| planes speeding toward it, the Zeppe
| line wheeled and drove at full speed
northward, dropping in its trail into
| the darkness a cargo of about three
and one-half tons of bombs.
After having driven the Turks from
a region about forty miles in length
! in Asiatic Turkey to the west of Lake
, Van and put them to retreat down the
Mush valley, the Russians seemingly
have ceased their operations in this
| particular vicinity for the winter.
The western war front was the
scene of really heavy fighting Satr-
day, the Germans having launched a
determined offensive there. After
making in recent days several dents
I In the entente allies lines, which had
been Strengthened out again in whole
or in part by counter-attacks, the leu
tons Saturday. after heavy lombard
ments, assaulted the allied positions
along a front of several kilometers
south of the River Somme and north
east of Melville. in the Artois region.
The attacks resulted, according to
Berlin, in sweeping gains in both
cases. the village of Frise ant 1000
yards of trenches south of it being
taken in the more southerly sector,
while in the Neuyille region 1900
yards of trenches were stormed, the
gains amounting to nearly mile and
half of front. incidentally more than
LOO prisoners and twenty-five ma
chine guns were taken.
Petrograd again points to the posi-
bility of the operations of the Russian
Caucasus army being markedly help
full to the British in Mesopotamia, re-
ferring TO the advance of the Russian
column south of Hamadan, where a
comparatively short distance sepa-
rated the Russian and British forces
in the two theaters of war. Although
the country between is mountainous.
Russian military observers take the
view that the Turks fear a juncture
of the two armies and are taking meas
ures to protect their lines against such
eventuality.
In the Balkans the Austrians con-
tinue to make progress in Albania, re-
porting the occupation of Alessio and
tic coast.