The sun., 1918-03-13
PARISRAIDED
BY so PLANES:
100 ARE DEAD
70 Persons Injured and
Some Buildings Wrecked
in German "Reprisal."
FOUR MACHINES FELLED
Yorkshire Coast of England Is
Attacked by German
Airships.

LONDON. March 12.--IIostile airships
attacked the Yorkshire coast tonight.
according to an official statement. The
raid Is still in progress.
Field Marshal Lord French. COM
mander of the home forces. reports that
one or two hostile airships attacked the
Yorkshire coast late this evening. A
few bombs are reported to have fallen
a short distance inland. No reports OF
casualties or damage have yet been re-
ceived.
PARIS. March l2.--The aerial attack
the most pretentious and spectacular
air raid Of the war, resulted in heavy
damage In the capital and suburbs and
took severe toll in killed and wounded.
In the city proper twenty-nine persons
were killed and fifty injured. Else
where FIVE were killed and twenty-nine
injured.
In addition to the victims Of the bomb
explosions. sixty-slN persons, mostly
women and children. were suffocated
through crowding, in panic. into a met
ropolitan railway entrance. In Friday
nights raid upon Paris thirteen persons
were killed and Atty wounded.
The Germans lost four planes. The at
tack. according to an official statement
issued from Berlin was in retaliation for
aerial attacks, on March Q and 10. on
Stuttgart Esslingen. Unterturkheim and
Mainz Berlin calls the raid "copious
and successful bomba rdment."
Nine squadrons In Raid.
Nine squadrons took part in the raid.
Nearly sixty machines succeeded in
crossing the French lines. although some
were turned back by a heavy barrage.
One Gotha was brought down in aames
three miles from Chateau Therry. the
Captain and crew being taken prisoners.
The officer Is a member of the Third
Squadron Of the German Seventh Army.
The fog which had covered the city
Monday morning settled down again In
the early evening. 1t was thick enough
to cause the general belief that there
was little chance that the Germans
would attempt an air raid This belief.
however. was shattered at $40 o'clock,
when the warning was sounded Of the
approach OF hostile aircraft. The raid
ended shortly after midnight.
The official report Of the raid says:
According to the first news nearly
sixty enemy airplanes succeeded in
crossing our lines. Thanks to the
curtain FIRE which our artillery main
~lucO tHTOuBHOut tuc Thlus WIN BTedt
intensity certain number OF the
machines failed to reach their objec-
tives. Nevertheless numerous bombs
were dropped on Paris and it's suburbs.
Several buildings were demolished and
took fire.
Bakers Impressions OF Raid.
Secretary Baker to-day made the fol-
lowing statement concerning Monday
nights air raid on Paris:
1T was my first experience Of the
actualities Of war and a revelation OF
the methods inaugurated by an enemy
who wages the same war against
women and children as against sol
diers.
''If his objects are to damage prop
erty the results are trfling when COM
pared with his efforts. II his objects
are to weaken the peoples morale the
reply is given by the superb conduct Of
the people OF Paris.
Moreover. aerial raids on towns.
which are counterparts OF the pitlless
submarine war and the attacks against
American rights. are the very explana-
tion OF the reasons why America
entered the war We are sending our
soldiers to Europe to fight until the
world ia delivered from these horrora