Evening star., 1918-03-31

1914, at 5:i5 p.m.-that rs, before tnN
hour when the German ambassador.
! Won Schoen, made known to the Frenc'
| government the German declaration o,
! war. Six bombs were thrown.
NJ Wagniere says: Il have in ms
hands the statements Of witnesses and
the photographs of the places wher,
the bombs fell and fragments of the
projectiles.'' Ambassador Won schoen
| tried to justify Germauys declaratio'
| of war by asserting that French aero
planes had bombarded Nuremberg-an.
! the German people are told SO TO this
day Prof. Bedier, SO well known !"
the United States. has been able TO 90
tain copies of the Nuremberg papers
the dates alleged and they do not re
port 1t at all, but only say there hai
been rumors of such a thing in Berlin
hundreds of miles away,
Wolff Agency Story.
The Wolff Agency now has ne
| story: The first air bombs were throw
in this war by British naval aviato3
| on the cities of Dusseldorf. Cologne az
| Friedrichshafen." The Swiss edit
1 who has been in a position to KIN
from the beginning, says sqaarely;
| far as Dusseldorf and Cologne are
| richshafen (where Zeppelins W.
| being made). we know that its u
| bom bardment was in November. IL
| long after German raids over Fref
1 cities.
| Take Paris alone on August 30. 1s'
| German afrcraft-Taubes-fie over g.
the first time. dropping bombs on L
| crowded part between the Place de
Republique and the Eastern railway
| station and killing one woman "a ia
| itress) and wounding two passers-
The next day bombs were again dr.
! ped. without loss of life. and so on
! three days The battle of the Ma
1 followed with the German retreat. d.
| 3r,u xtrl1f i.
dropped bombs on Paris killing frF
persons. all civilians. and wound1ng =
more 1t was not until September
that three British aeroplanes dropp'
bombs, not on the city, but on the ZAf
| pelin sheds of Dusseldorf.
1 In Paris. on September %. Taube
dropped four bombs. killing an old rrs an
and cutting Off the leg OF little girs
only a short distance from Anief-r
can Ambassador Herrick. The nearest
German fighting line was then NIFTY
miles from Paris, so that such aircraft
bombardments could have no military
utility or be in any way justified ~
/ legitimate acts Of war. 4
French Defense Opens.
! 1t was only on the I'd of October th
! for the first time, a French air sQua
rilla came into action to defend Par
| and succeeded in driving back tW-.
Taubes. Other German air raids on
i! II
tober five Taubes dropped twent Z
! bombs on the city, killing four civil
| ians, wounding fifteen more and brezl
ing hole in the roof of Notre Dan 4
| Cathedral The next day a Germs
aeroplane dropped six bombs on Par
| without noteworthy results. 1t wa
not until the 18th of October that Brit
| ish and French aeroplanes flew over
Karlsruhe as first menace of reprf..
sails. Meanwhile Germany generaIizesI
these air bombardments of ciyiliais
| populations distant from the fighting
front, along both the Russian frontier
and in France. The loss of life in War,
saw was particularly heavy. AS tn Z
Swiss editor says: 1T is impossible
enumerate the German air raids o
| cities like Nancy, Luneville. Boulogns
Bethune. Dunkirk, in all of which
there have been losses of life and othei
| injuries
In the night of Sunday the 2Ist. a
! March. 1915. the hrst Zeppelin raid too
place over Paris. Thirty-four ezplosiN
or incendiary BOMBS were dropped wit,
comparatively little result. one fall
ing not far from the American Hos
pital of Neuilly. On the 11th Of May
bombs over Saint-Denis, a large manu-
featuring suburb of Paris leaving FIVE
civilian victims. On the I'D another
German aeroplane, plotting a capturee
seven bombs on Paris, without grea'
result. Two days later. another Ger
man air raid damaged the environs OF
Paris as far as Compiegne. Eel
Bombards Workingmen's Quarter.
At 10 O'Clock Saturday night. Janu-
ary 2e, 1915. a Zeppelin bombarded a
workingmen's quarter of Paris. killing
eight men, nine women and nine chill
dren. of whom six were under four
wears of age, and wounding twenty
five more. Zeppelins are costly and un-
\ aJ,1 lNaI1 n flH loF fra
crew, and they seem to fTave worked
themselves out, but attacks of airplanes
ION Paris have gone on as constant
threat. They began again in July, 1917
And now, with every effort to terrorizt
Through threats published in neutrs3
papers, the giant Gothas of the las
weeks have appeared. The raid O.
January 80 killed in Paris and environa
over sixty civilians. most of whom. a.
usual, were women and children and
old men. The wounded count by hun
dreds.
The Wolff Agency now announces
that these attacks on Paris have al
ways been measures of reprisal and
adds: Yes. it's the same old song.
Germany, innocent and peaceful wasl
attacked by Belgium and world of
enemies-and just had to defend her
self. Very soon 1t will be four yearsl
since Berlin has been saying over 'tb'
lesson to the peoples of the Germ
empire and to neutrals- There arel
still Germans who believe it," Meanwhile|
they have executed their 101st air raj
on what the Wolff Agency calls 'tb 4
fortress of London"
Forbidden by Hague Agreement.
Lest we forget. let 1t be said that
The Hague agreement of July 29, 1893.
forbade the -bombardment by naval
forces of undefended places; that Ger-I
many signed and ratified the agree-I
ment, and that, in 1915. German cruis-
ers bombarded the unprotected seasidel
resorts of Hartlepool and Scarborough
in England. A special clause of TheI
Hague agreement forbade the droppingI
or firing of projectiles and explosives
from balloons or anything similar. ThiaI
was signed and ratified by Austria-I
Hungary, whose army, under GermanI
command, has made air raids on thei
Italian city of Padua, killing sixtyI
civilians in single night one year bel
fore the present excuse that Padua is
enemy headquarters. This clause Ger-I
many-even then-refused to sign. She
now declares that all her violations OIL
The Hague agreements, signed or un-I
signed, by her are, after all, only res
prisals and legitimate defense"
The Swiss editor confesses: "SuchI
facts confound us. We knew there was
a special old German god.' and nowI
we must believe there is special
German truth