The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05

yesterday with Darlan, denounced the British raid and said more than 50 fires were still burning in the raided area, including those at the Renault plant.
 He said that British bombs caused more than 100 fires in Boulogne- Sur Seine alCne. There were 287 identified dead at Boulogne-Sur- Seine and more than 100 uniden- tified dead.
 According 10 Fontaine, the raid was of major character. He esti- mated that 200 British planes had dropped nearly 2000 bombs, includ- ing new type 50-podnd demolition bombs which were so powerful that they virtually sliced six story apart ment houses from their foundations and caused them to collapse in ruins with their occupants.
 Hospitals were crowded with the wounded. estimated to total l,500 Many wounded persons were treat ed in corridors, or even in ambu- lances in the open. because there were no beds for them.
 Paris advices asserted that the famous Sevres porcelain factory was severely damaged.
 There seemed no doubt that the people of both occupied and un- occupied France resented the Bri- tish raid and that British prestige, already waning, had been almost eclipSed in France.
 Paris has no anti-aircraft defenseS because Germany will not permit them.
 The British planes dropped leat- lets which said that their raid was only the first and there would be more.
 The newspaper Matin here al- legged that the British government planned to destroy Is French chan mel ports, including Dunkerque, Le Havre, Boulogne-S -Mer and Calais because they rival British ports in European and world commerce. It said that some of the parts had been almost destroyed already by British airplane bombs.
 Raid Discussed at Capital The French ambassador, Gaston Henry Hayes calls at the state de- partment again today in another att tempt to clarify some of the clouded issued in Vichy-American relations.
 Henry -Haye asked for the appoint ment with acting secretary of state, Sumner Welles. At their meeting last Friday Welles asked for fur ther clarifications" of the Vlchy gov- ernment's position.
 Since then events have further complicated the already involved re- lations between the two countries.
 The United States has recognized the Free French as the controlling element in French islands of the Pacific, of which New Caledonia is of great importance to the United Nations.
 The British have bombed French factories on the outskirts of Paris, thus touching off a Nazi propa- ganda campaign intended to arouse the French people against the allied cause.
 Bombing Discussed
 The bombing was discussed at Welles press conference yesterday. He declined to discus the political aspects as they might affect Vichy's relations with Great Britain and the United States. But he said it was entirely clear that the bombing was legitimate measure of war. He said the factories were in a region completely under control of Ger many and were being used for the manufacture of war material and planes for the Nazis.
 Diplomatic sources believed the German propaganda in connection with the Paris bombing would not have harmful effect on American French relations. They said the Petain government had resisted Ger man efforts to gain control of the French fleet when France was at it's weakest-in June, 1940-and that there was no reason to believe Ger man pressure would be any more effective now.
 Welles has not revealed the points upon which he has sought clarifica- ton from Henry Have. It was un- derstood, however, that they in- cluded the transfer of the French battleship Dunquerque from north Africa to Toulonne, more explicit definition of war materials and fur ther information regarding collabo- ration of the authorities of French Indo-China with the Japanese. The original inquiries by the United States concerned the help given by the French to Axis forces in north Africa.
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