Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-11
Paris Bombed by
 German AirpIanes
TEN OR TWELVE souADRoNs
 WERE IN RAIDINe PARTY FRIDAY
13 PERSONS KILLEI
One of the Raidins Machines Was De- stroysd-sixty- one Defensive Air planes Defended the capital--Little Damage Was Done.


 Paris, Saturday, March s.-Teh or twelve squadrons of bombing airplanes participated in the German raid on Paris last night, according to official information. The casualties were nine killed and thirty mine persons wound ed. One of the raiding machines was destroyed. An official statement says the airplaae of the Gotha type was found in the Forest of Compeigne, where it had fallen while returning from the raid fon the capital. :, The machine had been demolished and it's crew of four burned to death. Some of the raiders came by way of the Valley of the Disc, others fol- 1 lowed the route of the Marne, while still others came from the direction of GreiN.
 Curtain of Fire. An official account of the raid says that the alarm was sounded at S.37 o'clock Friday evening and was pre- l ceded by canonading. French artil- | lery opened fire at S.54 o'clock, pro- 1 ducing a violent curtain of fire from all military posts in the regions north and northeast of Paris, which was maintained without interruption until the raiders departed.
 | the entrenched camps of Paris took the air. A large number of enemy l machines was repulsed by the aerial | defense and did not succeed in reach l. | ing Paris These machines were ! forced to drop bombs in considerable numbers in open fields and in the suburbs,
 | Although the raiders came in larger numbers than on any preceding raid
 the bombs dropped in the inhabited districts were far less numerous and
 they did very little damage.
 President Poincare visited the places
 where bombs had fallen and spoke 8
 kindly word of encoura cement to the
 people whose homes had been de
 stroved.
 Bombed Enemy Airdroues. U While the raid on Paris was ir ' Eprogress, French aviators near tht
 front, who kept in constant .comInuni
 and bonbarded the airdromes iron which the enemy machines arose. Jacques L. Dumesnil, under secre tary of aviation, went to sthe pfineipa airdrome outside of Paris when tn !. e6Est alarm was sounded and remaine, there throughout the raid. congratit , latihg and cheering the pilots and ob
 servers as they rose in the darkness
 on their dangerous task. New arrangements for #sheltering tn , people and other precautions worle i, well and the authorities are general. l satisfied that the effects of the raj : were reduced to the lowest degre l possible.
 Red Cross Active. : The American Red Cross mobilize
 105 men at the first warning and te
 cars spend off to points where bomb had fallen. A number of army am E balances from NeuillW also were ou and Y. M. C. A. workers aided in tn :. rescue work.
 n The night was clear but dark an
 as the general impression that tn , Germans reserve their raiding effort }, for moonlight nights. the raid was : surprise to Parisians, but it cannot h h said to have had much moral effect q large number of people refused to see e shelter in the deeper subway station e Some, however. walked homewar & through the subway tunnels, the cur ' rent having been cut of at the frs e signal of alarm.