Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-03-27

the latest reports the long distance
cannon which bombarded Paris this
afternoon was firing from distance
|of 100 kilometers Approximately
41s miles) and was located about
12 kilometers beyond the French
front.
She'll Every / 5 Minutes.
A dispatch filed at 4.15 D.. m. an
nounced that Paris had been under
bombardment for eight hours, shells
Of 240 millimstre, or about 91a
inches, falling in the capital and sub
urbs at intervals of 5 minutes. Ten
persons were said to have been kill
ed and 10 injured. The shortest dis
tance from Paris to the front is SO
miles.
Army Officers Surprised.
Washington, March 23.-The long
range hom mbardment of Paris by
German gun presumably 90 miles
Off, announced as fact to-day in the
French capital, dumbfounded Ameri-
can ordnance officers. The 22-mile
bombardment of Dunkirk by the
Germans more than a year ago had
set record and ordnance officers of
the American, British and French
corps freely conceded they never had
, dreamed Of monster gun with a
range of more than 80 miles.
| Some officers frankly questioned
that shells from rifles or cannon ac-
tually had fallen in Paris. Others
sought explanation in new devices or
secret gun emplacements in the ad-
vances from Paris. No one Of them
wanted to know that a gun had been
invented by the Germans or any one
else which could throw nine-inch pro-
jectiles 60 miles Pieces Of shells
bearing the marks Of gun rifling
seemed to preclude the idea of any
! ordinary airplane bomb. 1t was sug-
gested that monster airplanes mount
ing guns might have been used, but
no one has ever conceived the posi-
bilities Of carrying a nine and one
half inch weapon In the air.
Some officers conceived The posi-
bility that in the outskirts of Paris
there might be hidden gun. 1t
was admitted that it would have no
military value and could only be a
weapon Of terror.
If the German experts have evolv-
ed wholly new type Of gun not de-
pendent upon the same mathematical
factors that govern ordnance every
where, officers here think it highly
unlikely that they would employ it
for an isolated and meaningless at
tack Of Paris.
1t might be, some officers thought,
that continuous dropping Of me-
| dium caliber shells on the city was
part of hope for breaking the spirit
OF France by some mysterious visi-
tation.
| A bombardment of Paris at dist
ance of So miles appeared to most Of
the ordnance officers SO much COM
plete surprise that they found It diff
ficult to talk about.
Big Gun Finally Located.
Paris, March 24.-The German
monster cannon" which has been
bonbarding Paris has been located
In the forest of st. Gobain, west of
Laon, and exactly e122 kilometers
approximately 76 miles) from the
Paris city hall. The gun 5ombarded
Paris during the greater part of Sun
day.
The day was ushered by loud ex-
plosions from the 10-inch shells, and
Immediately the alarm to take cover
was sounded. This occurred at 6.55
O'Clock and many persons sought
shelter, but greater numbers Of them
appeared In the streets on their way
to the churches, which were almost
as well filled as usual. The women
who sell palm leaves on Palm Sun
days, did their usual thriving busi-
mess.
Shells Every 20 Minutes.
At first the shells began arriving
at intervals OF 20 minutes, and the
detonations, considering the Sunday
calm, seemed louder than those OF
Saturday. Their power to disturb
the equanimity of the populace, how
ever, seemed less, the people refus-
ing to be distracted from their Sum
day habits to any great extent.
For the benefit Of that portion Of
the populace which had been led to