VICHY--A two-hour British aerial bombardment of 20 industrial suburbs encircling Paris has killed more than 650 persons, wounded 1,500 and destroyed more than 500 buildings, from whose smoking wreckage the groans of buried victims still emerge, it was announced tonight.

Emergency crews still pried into the heaps of wreckage and it was believed that final casualty figures would be much higher.

Judging from the damage and the number of troops dropped in the raid last night, authorities estimated that at least 200 British bombers operating in relays took part in the raid, the worst the capital environs ever had undergone.