Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-10
BOMBS DROPPED
! ON PARIS, CAUSING
PROPERTY LOSSES
British Troops Repulse At
tack Made on the Bel
gian Front.
TRENCH RAlDING ABANDONED;
NOW MAKING LINE SMASHEs
Cambria and Ypres Areas Are
Scenes of Lively Artil-
lery Fights. ~
AIDERs VISIT AMERICANS
Indications Are Germans Are Pre-.
pairing for More Serious tF
Work at Toul. ~
TRENCH RAlDING ABANDONED:
NOW MAKING LINE SMASHEs
RAIDERS VISIT AMERICANS
indications Are Germans Are Pre-
pairing for More Serious l
Work at Toul.

Two Russian TRANSPORTS vere k,4;
tackled by the German destroyers and,
sunk following an attack south of. tie
Aiand Islands, according to a message
given out In Copenhagen late to-day.
NO details were given beyond the fact
that the meaGer information contained:
no announcement OF the rescue of the
crews, and it is generally believed the
men perishcd -
Paris was again visited by German
air raiders and attacked with bombs,
the War ONCE announced late to.day
1t is claimed the raid was n renrisal
Tor the throwing OF enemy bombs on
the open towns OF Treves, Mannheim
ana I'irmasens on February TO- The
war ONCE admits the attack was yery&
eHective, but no details are given. sItA
ADMITS loss of life and property. The
last air raid on Paris occurredaSon
January ii, when forty-ninc persons
were killed and 206 injured. -7--r3,i
WESTERN FLANDERS SCENE "a
OF SERIOUS FIGHTING
Western Flanders for the first tf1nys,
this year has been the scene of Ssc i
rious fighting between the British ahG
she enemy. who were forced to retife
behind the positions from which they
attacked. After n heavy artillery bonn.
| bardment, the Germans stormed The
BRUSH lines on front OF more than
mile south OF the Houtholst forest,
northeast of Tpres. At one point the
enemy broke through. but on most-ef
the front he was thrown back with
losses. The British countcrattacked
and drove the Germans back to their
own line and then occupied 500 yards
OF 1t.
The cambrai and Ypres areas con.
tinue the scenes OF spirited artillery
actions. Clear weather also has
brought Increased aerial activity ys'.toin Oh
the British front. and twenty enemy
airplanes are reported to have BEEN
put out OF action. including tenN de
stroycd. s,JI
On the American and French fronts
German raiding parties and Batteries
arc busy, but there have been no de-
termtned attacks. The artillery firing
rs especially heavy along the front from
Rheims TO the German border. Indica-
tions along the American sector north
west or Toul are that the enemy lis
preparing for moro serious work thsra.
CHANGE FIGHTING TACTICS ss
ALONG WESTERN FRONT
Hc 'oHS pcIlou uurlnS WHICH the
hghting on the western front has been
confined to trench raids is now oyar,
and the campaign has entered .ney
phase, ut least on the British front. ~
Twice within twenty-four hours the
Germans have attacked the Britisk
lines in Belgium on compare tivoly
wida fronts. Each time. however, they
were thrown back with heavy casual
ties. once, in the first attack launched
during the day yesterday over a width
OF more than a mile south OF Hout-
hoist wood. the Germans lost some of
their original ground through a Brit
ish countcrattack.
The second attack came last night
on front of nearly a mile. The Gea-
mans drove IN on both sides of the
Npres-Menin road, and were repuIsed s
speedily except north OF tho road, near
ioeiderhoek Chateau. Some zoo yards 4
OF the line which the British lost there
vas rcSaincd III counter activities 5df1r-
ing the night.