The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-02-03
ZEPPELIN BOMBS
KILL "a N PARIS
AIR RAID MADE ON FRENCH GAP.
ITAL WITH FATAL RESULTS.
THE INVADERS ARE DRIVEN or
French Aeroplanes Attack German
Aairships - People Refuse To
Heed Warming To Remain In.
-s% doors During Attack.

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J.. Paris, Jan. 31.-Another Zeppelin
raid was made on Paris at 10 o'clock
last night when bombs were dropped
on the city. Authorities announced
that no damage was done
Six bombs were dropped in the bus
mess section and twenty-four fell in
the open field. Some exploded in
the vicinity, of factory but no dam.
age was done. 50
A French air patrol attacked the
enemy dreadnaughts and they fed
Twenty.four Are Killed. II
Paris, Jan. 3l.-An alarm was sound
ed that another feet of Zeppelins was
approaching Paris. The populace was
warned to evaeuate the upper floors
of their homes, and the streets were
ordered cleared. All eyes once more
we're skyward for the first sight of the
returning raiders, and the giant
searchHghts streaBed the sky on all
sides. The sounding of the alarm. was
believed to indicate that the zeppelins
had been sighted over the suburbs OF
Paris. The city has not yet recovered
announced that twenty-four persons
we're killed. While much praise. was
given to the minister of aviation for
the success of the air fleet in driving
off the Zeppelins,- there was much
criticism because the aviators could
not defeat the German flyers before
they drew near enough to drop bombs
ON Paris.
Paris, Jan. 31.-Parts was raided by
German ZeppeliRs at night. Several
bombs were dropped. Ten persons
were killed and thirty injured. The
raid was not unexpected, and when
the first Zeppelin was reported ap-
proaching great fleets of French aero
planes took the air and gave the in
vaders battle.
Paris in Darkness.
Fire alarms were sounded through.
out the city, house and street lights
were extinguished, and the top floors
of all buildings were evacuated.
Searchlights Immediately began to
play the sky, searching out the raiders
in an effort to find targets for the aero
planes and the antiaircraft guns.
Despite the raid and its possible con-
sequences, Paris was calm.
The people took to the streets and
gazed skyward in the hope they could
catch glimpse Of the huge gas bags.
1t is believed this carelessness on
the part of the civilians cost the lives
of the ten reported dead and the thirty
injured.
Few details of property damage are
obtainable, and It Is not known If the
persons injured received serious or
minor wounds. : 81
Big Attack Last March.
The last Zeppelin raid on Paris took
place about ten months ago, early on
the morning OF Sunday, March 81,
1915. Two Zeppelins crossed over the
heart of the city from Courbevoie, over
Neuilly, and out over Clichy, dropping
more than fifty bombs, which caused
some slight damage and injured seven
or eight persons. E. -
The entire city turned out to see the
raid, the. dirigibles being brilliantly
illuminated during the entire period
by searchlights and constantly bonn
barded by the French antiaircraft
guns. They were followed as they de-
parted by fleet of French aeroplanes.
January II, 1915, the city was dark
ened for an expected raid, but the pre-.
caution proved unnect 7sary.