Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-13
TH|RTY-FOUR DIE
WHEN bOCHES FLY
OVER FRENCH CITY
Sixty-Six Others Suffocatcd
in Panic as All Rush
to Tunnel.
SECRETARY BAKER SEES
RAID BY ENEMY AVIATORS
Expresses His Opinion of Men
Who Slay Defenselcss Women
and Children.
AMERICANS RAIn TRENCHES
Situation i'm Siberia Is Daily Grow
ing Worse While Japan
Watches and Waits.
AMERICANS RAID TRENCHES
Situation i'm Siberia Is Daily Grow
ing Worse While Japan
Watches and Waits.

''osIi!c alrShipS attacked the York;
shire coast last night. according TO
messages received at midnight The
raid was in progress foc scvera, min
uies and number OF bombs were
dropped but up 10 midnight no re-
ports OF casualties had come into the
London Office.
Field Marshal Lord French. com
mander of the home forces, reported
two enemy airships were sighted The
coast dcfenses immediately opened fire
Reports also reached The Eritisi,
War Office late last night OF the work
of English aviators who dropped tons
OF bombs on the town OF Coblcna. capt
tai or the Rhine province Of Prus-
STA The damage done has not yc.
been asccrtaincd.
Coblenz. which is situated on ono OF
the finest sections of the Rhine has a
population OF nearly $4,000. 1t is a
strongly fortified town. and on the
opposite bank of the Rhine. on a loft.
rocky cmnence is the Fortress oe
Ehrenhrcitstein. which has been con-
sdered almost impreSnablc.
The town does large trade by
water and rail. It's manufactures in
clude pianos, paper goods and machin-
cry There also is some shpbuiidinS
done there.
PARIS AIR RAID MONDAY
MOST DISASTROUS OF WAR
Monday nights air raid over Paris
was the most disastrous. in point OF
casualties. the Germans have yet car
ried out there. Thirty-four persons
were Killed and scvcnty-uinc injured
Ii in, 10 ,ic
siXty-six other persons ..erc suffo-
Gated in the Metropolitan Railway tube.
where they had fled te escape missiles
of the raiders. Some sixty hostile ma
chimes carried out the attack. and four
Of them We're brought down by the
French. Berlin says the raid was nvidc
as a rcprisal for the bombing OF Stu;t-
Sart and other German towns.
The raidnS C;otha. brought down in
flames. fell on a spot three miles from
Chateau 'rhicry. \ German captain
who was on board and was taken pris-
oncr with tho crow belongs to the Third
Squadron OF tho German Seventh Army
The fog which had covered the city
Monday morning settled down again in
the early evening. II was thick enough
TO cause the general belief that there
was little chance that the Germans
would attempt an air raid. This brlicf
however. was shattered at A:1D O'clock.
when the warning was sounded OF the
approach OF hostile aircraft. The raid
cndcd shortly after midnight, The
official report OF the raid says; fS
According to the first news nearly
S.Xt" dncmy airpiancS succeeded in
crossing our lines Thanks 10 the cur
tain fire which our artillery maintained
throughout tho raid with great ntcn-
sity, a certain number of tho machines
failed to reach their ohjectives Never
thclcss. numerous bombs worc dropped
on Paris and it's suburbs. several build
lngs were demolished and took frc."
SECRETARY or WAR HAI>ER
IN CELLAR DURING HtID
Secretary of War Eaker Witnessed
Monday nights raid in raris. To safe
guard his life the owner of the hotel
in which he was holding conference
with army officials had him 20 into the
wine cellar. In discussing the raid,
MIR. Eaker said:
"It was my first experience of the
actualitics OF war end a revelation ot
the methods inaucuratcd by an enemy
who wages the same war against wp-
n'cr and children as against soldiers.
cry, tho results arc trihinG when COM
p:.:tn with his efforts. IL his objects
are tc weaken tho peoples morale, the
rrp.y is give. by the superb conduct or
tn" people OF Paris.
Moreover. aerial raids towns,
v t,cN arc counterpart OF the pi,iless
submarine Mar. and the attacks against
American rights are the very expaDa5
tion OF the reason why America enter
cd the war. We are sending our SOL
dierS TO Europe to fight until the
world rs delivered from these horrors
\ large German raidinS party, at
,acking positions OF the Portuguoss
troops near Lavcntie. was caught by
machine gun fire from the front and on
both TANKS and suffered heavy Cas-
ualtics, according TO the British Official
communication last night.
Numerous dead and wounded Ger
mans were left in mo mans land"
when the main body took 10 hight.
An American detachment In the
Wocvre region has successfully carried
out surprise attack on German