AERIAL RECORD
James Ian Macpherson, Parliamentary Secretary of the British War Office, announced in the British Commons on March 19 that 255 flights into Germany, constituting 38 raids, had been made since last October, and that forty-eight tons of bombs had been dropped.
Italians bombed Metz on the nights of March 17 and March 23 and the railway station at Thionville on March 24.
Paris was raided on the night of April 12 and twenty-six were persons killed and seventy-two wounded.
Bombs were dropped on the east coast of England on the night of April 12. Five persons were killed and fifteen injured.
NAVAL RECORD
Ostend was bombarded by British monitors on March 21. On the same day two German destroyers and two torpedo boats were sunk off Dunkirk by British and French destroyers.
The Alexander Agassiz, a small boat formerly of American registry, which was outfitted by the Germans at Mazatlan for service as a raider, was captured in the Pacific Ocean by an American cruiser on March 19.
The Belgian relief ship Flandres was sunk by a mine on April 11.
The German transport Frankland struck a mine and sank at Noorland, March 22, and all on board, including Admiral von Meyrer, were drowned.