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.