June, 1917
Reading edition
1 Taube dropped 2 bombs 12:30 A. M.; bombardment continued, 500 shells; night calm.
2 Bombardment from 7 A. M., 500 shells.
3 Bombardment from 6:30 A. M., day and night, more than 1000 shells.
4 Bombardment from 7 A. M., 300 shells.
5 Bombardment from 7 A. M., 200 shells.
6 Bombardment from 6:30 A. M., 1500 shells; St. Benoît injured.
7 Bombardment from 5:30 A. M., 200 shells; night calm.
8 Bombardment continued, 400 shells.
9 Bombardment day and night, 500 shells.
10 Bombardment from 4 P. M.
11 Bombardment afternoon and night, 500 to 600 shells.
12 Bombardment from 6 A. M., 1200 shells.
13 Bombardment from 5 A. M., 400 to 500 shells.
14 Bombardment from 6 A. M., 500 shells.
15 Bombardment from 5 A. M.
16 Bombardment from 5 A. M.; violent 9 A. M. to 2 P. M., 500 shells; continued at night; 1500 shells in all.
17 Bombardment from 7:30 A. M., day and night, 2500 shells.
18 President Poincaré visited Reims; gave decoration of Legion of Honour to Cardinal Luçon, Archbishop of Reims; MM. de Bruignac and Émile Charbonneaux, adjuncts to the Mayor of Reims; Dr. Harman of the hospital service; M. Beauvais, director of the School of Commerce and Industry; M. Martin, secretary-in-chief to the Sous-Préfecture, and M. Paul Dramas, editor-in-chief of "L'Eclaireur de l'Est." Bombardment from 5 A. M. and at night, 500 to 600 shells.
19 Bombardment all day, 3000 shells.
20 Bombardment from 6 A. M., day and night, 500 to 600 shells.
21 Morning calm; bombardment 4 to 7 P. M., 450 shells; renewed at night.
22 Bombardment most of the day; renewed 10 P. M. to 4 A. M., 850 shells.
23 Bombardment continued to 4 A. M.; renewed 6 A. M., more than 1300 shells (800 from 9 A. M. to 1 P. M.; 205 from 1 to 3 P. M.; 255 from 3 to 7 P. M.; more than 50 at night).
24 Bombardment continued, 717 shells.
25 Bombardment continued; terrible in the afternoon and night, 2442 shells.
26 Bombardment day and night, less intense, 617 shells.
27 Bombardment continued day and night.
28 Bombardment continued; 8 shells on the cathedral.
29 Bombardment continued day and night, 772 shells.
30 Day relatively calm; intense bombardment at night, 200 shells.