Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-03-13
MANY PLANES RAID PARIS.
Quick Entry of Trench Filters Pre-
vents Success of Attack.

formation. The casualties were nine
killed and 80 wounded.
One Of the raiding machines was
destroyed. An official statement says
an airplane OF the Gotha type was
found in the forest OF Compiegne,
where 1t had fallen while returning
from the raid on the capital. The ma
chine 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-
lowed the route OF the Marne, while
still others came from the direction
of Greill. @
An official account of the raid says
that the alarm was sounded at S.37
O'Clock Friday evening and was pre-
ceded by cannonading. French artil-
lery or ened fire at 1854 O'Clock, pro-
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.
Sixty-one defensive airplanes from
the entrenchment camps of Paris
took the air. A large number Of en-
emy machines was repulsed by the
aerial defense and did not succeed in
reaching Paris. These machines
were forced to drop bombs in consid-
cradle numbers in open fields and In
the suburbs.
Although the raiders camo in lar
ger numbers than on any preceding
raid. the bombs dropped in the in
habited districts were far less num-
erous.
President Poincare visited the
places where bombs had fallen and
spoke kindly word OF encourage
ment to the people whose homes had
been destroyed
While the raid on Paris was in
progress French aviators near the
front. who kept in constant commu-
nication with the capital, took the
air and bombarded the airdrOmes
from which the enemy machines
arose.
jacques l.. Dumesnil, under secre-
tary Of aviation, went to the principal
airdrome outside Paris when the
first alarm was sounded and remain
ed there throughout the raid, con-
graduating and cheering the pilots
and observers rs they arose in the
darkness on their dangerous task.
New arrangements for sheltering
the people and other precautions
worked we'll and tho authorities are
generally satisfied that the effects Of
the raid were reduced to the lowest
degree OSsible.
The American Red Cross mobilized
1O5 men at the first warning and ten
cars sped off to points where bombs
had fallen. A number Of army am
balances from Neuilly also were out
and Y.M.C.A. workers aided in the
rescue work.
Thirteen Were Killed.
Paris, March 10.-It now is report-
ed officially that 13 persons we're
killed and so wounded in Friday
nights air raid.
German officers Killed.
Grand Headquarters Of the French
Army. March 9.-The commander Of
the German airplanes, which at
tempted to terrorize Paris, Capt.
Fritz Eckstein, and three companions,
one OF whom was an officer of the
Emperor's White Cuirassiers from
fotsdain, were killed when their ma
chine crashed In the Compiegne for
est. 1t Is questionable whether the
commander ever reached Paris.
Second Raid Takes Heavy Toll.
Paris, March 12.-Thirty-four per-
sons were killed and 70 others we're
injured In Paris and it's suburbs as a
result of last nights German air raid.
In addition to the bomb victims,
&C persons were suffcoated through
.crowding in panic into Metropol-
itan railway entrance to take refuge
q
most part women and children,
Os the bomb victims 80 we're killed
and SO injured in Paris and five kill
ed and 90 injured in the suburbs.
The Germans lost four airplanes in
last nights attack on Paris. Nine
squadrons took part In the raid.
One raiding Gotha was brought
down in flames and fell on spot
three miles from Chateau Thierry.
a German captain who was on board
and was taken prisoner with the
crow belongs to the third squadron
or the German seventh army.
The fog was thick enuogh to cause
the general belief that there was lit
tie chance of an air raid. This be-
lief, however, was shattered at 9.1O
O'Clock when the warning was sound
ed. The raid ended shortly after.
midnight.
This was the second aerial attack
on Paris Of the last few days, 13 per-
sons having been killed and so
wounded In q raid last Friday night.
French Guns Drop German Plane.
A German airplane was hit by
French anti-aircraft guns last night
and fell north OF Scissors, the war
Office reports. Three passengers, two
Of them officers, were captured.
Soissons Is near the bend in the