I ===== GERMANS BOMBARD PARIS LONG DISTANCE CANNON FIRES SHELLS INTO CITY. ^ People Not Excited.?Gun Great Mechanical Feat, But Failure as Military Weapon. Paris, March 24.?The German monster cannon which has been bombarding Paris has been located in .the forest of St. Gobain west of Laon, and exactly 122 kilometres (approximately ly 76 miles) from the Paris City Hall. ml? ?? Poric- Hiirinjr thp rX lie gUli uumuaiuou * U.X AO uu..ua greater part of Sunday. i The day was ushered in by loud L, explosions from ten-inch shells, and immediately the alarm to take cover was sounded. This occurred at 6.55 o'clock and many persons sought shelter, but greater numbers of them appeared in the streets on their way to the churches, which were well filled. The women who sell palm leaves on Palm Sundays did their usual thriving business. Citizens Not Frightened. At first the shells began arriving at intervals of twenty minutes, and v the detonations, considering the Sun*. day calm, seemed louder than those of Saturday. Their power to disturb the equanimity of the populace, how ever seemed less. For the benefit of that portion of the populace which had been - led to believe the Germans had broken through the lines and were bombarding Paris from nearby positions, a semi-official note was issued during the day. It warned? the people against believing pessimistic reports. "The French front is intact," said the note. "Any assertion to the contrary is a lie." * The bombardment of the capital ended around 1 o'clock, and as late as 2 o'clock no explosions had been L heard for more than an hour. The . W* 'clear signal' was sounded at 3.30 ( o'clock. Firing Increases. Although during the earlier hours ' of the bombardment the shells ar- . J * rived on twenty-minute intervals, late in the day they began arriving every fifteen minutes on the average, and some of them even fell twelve minutes apart. / In military eircles the belief was expressed that the Germans were us( ing two long distance guns. The Mat- . in says the position of one of the guns * was established in the St. Gobain forest, which would place it somewhat further than had been believed, and I in the wooded area. This position would be about seventy miles from Paris. ^ if Lively on Streets. During the early hours or tne ^ morning traffic in the streets of Paris was shut down or curtailed, hut bev; fore noon both the subways and tram- j ways began running again. In the afternoon' the streets of the city showed great animation. The government has decided that ^ i in the future the bombardments of I Paris by long distance guns shall not = interrupt the normal life of the l * capital, but that'the population shall j be warned of a bombardment by dis- < tlnctive means, differing from the c usual warnings sent out in cases of air raids. Drums will be beaten and ] the police will sound whistles. The t public services, the trains in the sub- i 4 ways, the tramways and the automo- ? bile buses will continue to be operat- t ed normally. ? Useless Barbarity. 1 The newspapers do not conceal i their admiration for the mechanical j feat of the Germans in constructing <; Hheir new weapon, but speak passion- i ately of the useless barbarity of thfe bombardment. The Matin says it is consoling to note that the number of a victims is small, but it asks for re- g prisals on German cities. c Prof. Paul Painleave, former pre- i mier and president of the Academy of Sciences, told The Excelsior that, r by using tungsten in the fabrication r of the projectile, the tungsten shells j (would be about half the diameter of steel shells of an even weight, and that therefore the atmospheric resis tance would be less, t>is accounting 'for the extremely long range. He r also touched on the possibility of a a propeller being employed on the pro- 2 jectile. \ Alfred Capus, in The Figaro alludes e to the making of the gun as a great a mechanical feat, but points out that, as a military factor, the weapon is c entirely inefficacious. The Petit s Parisien comments upon the bom- p bardment as an extremely minor in- t cident as compared with the gigantic battle in progress on the British front. t * Big Gun French Invention. 7 The Le Petit Journal says Jules d Verne had foreseen this gun and it r declared, moreover, that it is a t French invention. "More than a year i ago," it adds, "we discovered the se- t cret of firing our cannon more than t 100 kilometres. The secret lies in i the greater suppression of the at- a mospheric resistance." I: The Echo De Paris declares the r 4 P TOOK GERMAN BY SURPRISE. Prisoner Says the Huns Regard the Americans Good Soldiers. With the American Army in France, March 24.?The experiences of a patrol of four Americans who, after crawling nearly a mile, surprised a German listening post and brought back a prisoner, were quite thrilling. The patrol was in command of a lieutenant. The lieutenant jumped on the German, who was so deeply engrossed in his duties of listening that he had not heard-the approach of the Americans, while others of the patrol went into the post. The lieutenant and the German rolled into a trench filled with three foot r>f W7Q tor A connriH P.erni a r. at tempted to shoot the lieutenant, but an American corporal drove his bayonet through him. The patrol brought their prisoner back over the route they had taken to the post, and when he came to describe his capture the German said wonderingly: "The first thing I knew a big American was on top of my throat, and next I was being hauled across No Man's Land." The intelligence officers gleaned from the prisoner that his comrades were inclined to regard the Americans good Soldiers, who were fighting enthusiastically. The food supplied to the German soldiers was poor, he said, and their morale was for the most part bad. A 1 ^ 1 A _ ? ^ J. il A. a later aispatcn states tnat me American lieutenant referred to above is a Charlestonian, but his name has not been revealed. Would Have to Feed Bird. \ Mike had seen nearly every clock in the shop, but had discarded all of them as not being good enough for lis purpose. The weary shopman had sxhausted his whole shop except a few cuckoo clocks, so he brought forward these as a last resort, and vowed he would do his best to sell one or know the reason why. "Do the^clocks strike the hours?" tsked Mike. "I'll show you what they do," said the shopman. And he set the hands >f one to a few minutes to 12. When :he little door flew open and the juckoo thrust his head out, cuckooing away for dear life, Mike was thunderstruck. But when the bird lisappeared he 'ooked glum and poniered in gloomy thought for a monent. "Well, how do you like that?" askid the shopman. "That's a staggerer :or you, isn't it?" "Faith and begorra, I should think t is," declared Mike. "It's trouble mough to remember to wind it with>ut having to think of feeding the )ird."?London Standard. ^ ? The new submarine fighters which ,re being built at the Ford plant vill be known as "Eagles" and will onstitute tne HJagie ciass or Doats. jombardmeat is designed to give the mpression that Paris is within range )f the German guns. "It is a political rannon," the newspaper says. Premier Clemenceau's newspaper, yHomme Libre, says the password of he hour is confidence. "Germany," t declared, "had wished to make it i complete offensive on all fronts? he land, water and air fronts, as well is the 'front of the rear.' We are acing an enemy who wishes to end t as soon as possible. That suits us. Svery shell that falls into Paris Irives deeper into us the confidence a an ultimate victory." . Of Austrian Make. The newspaper Le Journal, in its irticle regarding the monster gun, &ys the piece of 240 millometres :alibre is of Austrian manufacture, t is a very delicate piece of machinsry which must be handled by expert nathematicians and gunners, the lewspaper adds, as the loading and minting is a difficult task. It declares sach shot costs about $4,000. "This is a new conception of our snemies," the newspaper comments. The ordnance expeTts were not eady last night to commit themselves ls to whether the shell was a sort of terial torpedo driven by propellers; vhether the inner projectile containKi in the original shell is released by ' m explosive after the shell has traveled a certain distance from the gun, >r whether the original jrojectile itelf reaches its destination propelled eerhaps by an explosive of a force litherto unknown. Aviators Regulate Firing. 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