Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-12
PARIS MAD OVER
HUN AIh ATTACKS
EVERY TINE THE GERMANS RAID
FRENCH CAPITAL THEY MAKE
THAT MANY FRENCHMEN ALL
THE MADDER.

THAT MANY FRENCHMEN ALL
THE NADER.
PARIS, March 12.--Paris awoke this
morning, or rather arose from sleep
less beds, with shudder OF horror
that gradually became feeling OF
rage and cry for vengeance and re-
prisals as the exaggerated stories of
tie casualties attending the German air
raid were being circulated.
In spite of the fact that the visit
Of the raiders had been expected and
that friends lett one another on these
bright moonlit nights with the parting
shall we be 'Gotha-ed' tonight?' the
general alarm of the impending air
raid first came as distinct shock but
the innate curiosity of the Partisan
promptly got the better of his pru-
dence and it was not long before there
we're heads protruding from nearly
every window and the people began
swarming into the streets.
1t has now been definitely ascer-
tanned that the correct number of cas-
ua tiles is thirty-six killed and one hun
dred and ninety wounded -Four Ger
man squadrons the French lines, thir-
ty-two machines in all and it is assert
ed in German communicates that thirty
thousand pounds of explosives were
rained over the city and its suburbs.
The amount of material damage ap-
pears to be rather small as compared
with the magnitude of the German en-
deavor.
1t was twenty minutes past elev en-
when the first alarm was sounded and
Immediately the distant rumbling Of
the heavy anti-aircraft guns could be
heard in the distance to the north
Gradually it grew nearer and nearer
and meanwhile the buzz of the motors
of the French airplanes. as one after
the other, they rose to meet the on
coming Germans in battle and cir
cled over the city now and then fash
ing their lights, became louder and
louder. 1t gave the Parasians feel.
ing of security and pride.
''They are sure of war reception,
said one in a window. I think II
turn in and let them fight it out. II
read all about it in the morning pa
pers."
Then suddenly, deeper detonation'
were heard, hollow, muffled roars ant
one knew that somewhere in the cit!
children and women were being
slaughtered.
For two long, interminable hour
they kept at it and then the report:
became fainter and fainter and died al
together,
All Paris was buzzing with excite
ment as the people went to the dali.
routine of their work that mornin!
and the conversations heard in tn
subway and other conveyances an
the public places were of but one topic
the raid 1t was with stern visage
that they greeted one another. If tn
Germans had hoped to weaken tn
morals of the civilian population the,
made mistake as excavations and de
mands for reprisals were heard on al
sides. There was no whimpering, n
talk of letting up in the war; nothin!
but the firm resolution to continu
fighting.
How can we make peace with sucl
people as that?' said a gentle oil
woman in mourning. The women wer
very brave.
To one accustomed to the air raid
by Entente aviators on cities in Bel
GUM and in the occupied territory o
France, the firing of the French anti
aircraft guns against the enemy ma
chimes appeared feeble in comparison
with the formidable bombardmen
which the Germans greet the Entent
machines.
This was explained to the Associates
Press by French officer as due to tn
fact that it is dangerous to fire
shrapnel and shells into the sky owe
/, city the size of Paris as the casual
ties from the falling of the very she'll
destined for the enemy might be large
than the damage done by their owl
bombs.
"Of course, said the officer, 9TH
Germans need have no such scruple
they care little how many French ant
Belgian civilians they kill
During the raid, Montmartre pre-
scented an appearance which unde
less tragic circumstances should have
!, been comical. Bearing mattresses
and bed covers citizens of the hill
entered the stations of the Metropoli
| tan underground and settled them