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The Bombardment of Reims

October, 1916

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1 Bombardment 1 P. M., 3 shells; renewed 1:15 P. M., 13 shells.

2 Calm; some cannonade in morning.

3 Nothing to note.

4 Taube 6 A. M.; bombardment 10 to 11 A. M., 9 shells; renewed 4 to 5:45 P. M., 40 shells.

5 Bombardment 12 to 12:30 P. M., 7 shells; renewed 4 P. M., Taube shrapnel, 1 wounded.

6 Taube 10 A. M.

7 Nothing to note.

8 Calm.

9 Calm.

10 Taube in morning; bombardment 3:30 to 6 P. M., 28 shells.

11 4 Taubes 6 to 11 A. M., dropped 4 shells; artillery 5 P. M.

12 Calm.

13 Bombardment 8 A. M., 4 shells.

14 Distant bombardment 11 A. M.; some shells.

15 Calm.

16 Bombardment 2 P. M.

17 Bombardment 8 A. M., 10 shells.

18 No shells; French artillery 4 P. M.

19 Calm.

20 Bombardment 10 to 11 A. M., 18 shells; renewed 3 to 5 P. M., 13 shells.

21 Bombardment 9:30 to 11:30 A. M., 19 shells; 8 shells in afternoon.

22 Fire on Taubes.

23 Fire on Taubes 7 A. M.; some shells in the day.

24 Fire on Taubes.

25 Bombardment 10:30 A. M., 11 shells; renewed 1:30 to 5 P. M., 400 to 500 shells; French artillery from 9 P. M.

26 Relatively calm.

27 Heavy bombardment 6:45 A. M. to 5 P. M., about 1200 shells.

28 Bombardment 3 to 5 P. M., 13 shells.

29 Calm.

30 French artillery in morning, no response.

31 Some shells in morning.

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