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GERARD AND THE BLACK mm Ambassador Gerard New picture of James W. Gerard, "I'-scaiugtoii, (allowing liis recall from Germany. The picture shows Gerard carrying the black bag which he had always in his posses sion from the time he left Germany until he arrived in Washington. The j bag contained important documents which Gerard would" not entrust to any one. o o FRENCH GUNNERS BRING DOWN ZEPPELIN IN PARIS STREETS ALL OF CREW KILLED. j Paris, March 19. From 11,000 as feet in the sky, French expert anti aircraft gunners last week at Com peigne brought down in blazing ruins . giant German Zeppelin, one of a number apparently returning from a raid on England. It fell in one of the main streets of the city a charred mass, those of its crw who remained aboard being burned into, unrecognizable masses. -Two or three of the crew, mad with pain of the flames and certain of death, preferred to meet it ptherwise than in a mass of fire and jumped thousands of feet to the earth. Thousands gathered in the streets to listen to the rattle of the anti-aircraft guns and to cheer the marks men. When one monster of the sky was hit there was a tremendous out burst of cheering. Meanwhile the Zeppelins from their "Vast height aloft had launched ' several bombs at the town. No one1 '. was hurt by them and the damage" was insignificant. The greater peril came when the blazing mass of the stricken Zeppelin shot down from aloft, gathering momentum as it fell nearly wo miles from the sky, but no one was injured. o o Washington. American exports and imports decreased almost $190, 000,000 in February first month of. unrestricted German U-boat-warfare according to report of department of commerce. Even crowned heads are going up in the air.