Paris, Jan. 31.
The Zeppelin raid last evening was the shortest on record, It lasted only for a minute, in spite of the fact that the foggy conditions were in ite favour. The Zeppelin ran before the pursuing aeroplanes, one of which followed the raider for an hour.
The papers point out thet, as usual, the victims were mostly women and children The newspapers unanimously demand reprisals for the Zeppelin raids. It appears that there were several viotima of the second raid.
The French aeroplanes displayed the utmost bravery in tackling the raiders. On Saturday a fast chine, piloted by quartermaster, fiercely engaged the Zeppelin until ite incendiary cartridges and all ite ammunition were exhausted. A gun aeroplane got above the raider ani opened an intense fire on the fleeing enemy, damaging it, but not, minutes, the German machine-guna blazing continuously. Only an engine defeat compelled him to descend.
Paris, Feb. 1.
A Zeppelin again approached Paris last evening but when lit up by searchlights it turned and fled. Later.
The second raid was almost acomplete failure, the Zeppelin fleeing when it found Paris prepared. It dropped both incendiary and explosive bombs and the former did some damage in one of the northera suburbs of Paris. The latter fell in seven suburban communes, the biggest of these bombs weighing 2 cwt. and all were loaded with trinitrotoluene. Some persons assert that they saw two Zeppelin London, Feb. 1 The wireless service Berlin the erich of Freiburg."
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