The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-11
PARIS MADE GOOD
 DEFENSE AGAINST
 ENEMY AIR ATTACK
Official Report Places the Casualties at Thirteen Killed and Fifty
 Wounded

Paris Saturday, March 10,-Ten or l12 squadrons of bombing airplanes par ticipated in the German raid on Parls last night. according to official infor- nation The casualties were IS killed and 50 wounded
 One of the raiding machines was de- stroyed. An official statement says the airplane of the Gotha type was found in the forest of Compiegne, where 1t had fallen while returning from the raid on l the capital The machine had been ie- molished and it's crew of four burned to death.
 Some of the raiders came by way of the Valley of the Disc, others followed the route of the Marne, while still others
 came from the direction of Grielle. TREMENDOUS COMMANDMENT I An official account of the raid says the alarm was sounded at s:57 o'clock Fri 1 day evening and was preceded by can nonading. French artillery opened fire at s:45 o'clock, producing violent cur l tain of fire from all military posts in the regions north and northeast of Paris, which was maintained without in- terruption until the raiders departed.
 Sixty-one defensive airplanes from tho entrenched camps of Paris took the air. A large number of enemy machines were repulsed by the aerial defense and did not succeed in reaching Paris. These
 machines were forced to drop bombs in
 considerable numbers in open fields and | in the suburbs
 LITTLE DAMAGE DONE 1 Although the raiders came in larger
 numbers than on any preceding raid, the bombs dropped in the inhabited dis i tricts were far less numerous and they I did very little or no damage. l President Poincare visited the places
 where bombs had fallen and spoke a
 kindly word of encouragement to the jpeople whose homes had been destroyed. 1 While the raid on Paris was in prog ress, French aviators near the front, who ! kept in constant communication with the l capital took the air and bombarded the
 airdromes from which the enemy ma | chimes arose.
 l Jacques l.. Dumesnil under secretary of aviation, went to the principal air
 drome outside Paris when the first alarm was sounded and remained there
 throughout the raid. congratulating and
 cheering the pilots and observers as l they arose in the darkness on their dan gerous task.
 NEW DEFENSE | New arrangements for sheltering the people and other precautions worked
 well and the authorities are generally
 satisfied that the effects of the raid
 were reduced to the lowest degree pos l sible.
 The American Red Cross mobilized 10s men at the first warning and 10 cars sped off to points where bombs had fallen. A number of army ambulances | from Neuiliy also were out, and Young
 Mens Christian association workers aided in the rescue work.
 The night was clear but dark, and as the general impression is that the Ger mans reserve their raiding efforts foi moonlight nights, the raid was sur prise to Parisians, but it cannot be said to have had much moral effect. A large number of people refused to seek shelter in the deeper subway stations. Some. however, walked homeward through the subway tunnels, the current having been cut off at the first signal of alarm.