The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 28, 1918, Page 7, Image 7
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
In yesterday's bombardment tweny-four
shots in all were fired from
r.20 a. m. to 3 o'clock p. m., a shell
Iropping every twenty minutes with
nonotonous regularity. The bom>ardment
presented all the characterstics
of a bombardment by heavy arillery,
there being regular intervals
letween the shots and the shells fallng
within a restricted area. Enemy e
.viators flying high over the city dur- J
ng the early hours of the bombard- <
nent regulated the firing. J
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