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The Bombardment of Reims

September, 1916

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1 Calm.

2 Calm; 2 Taubes 5 P. M.

3 Taube; bombardment 8:30 to 10:30 A. M., 13 shells; renewed 5 to 7 P. M.

4 Calm.

5 Bombardment 10:30 A. M., 3 shells.

6 No shells.

7 No shells.

8 No shells.

9 Some shells in morning, 1 wounded; Taube dropped 2 bombs 6 P. M., 1 killed, 1 wounded; artillery to south at night.

10 Calm.

11 French artillery in morning; no shells.

12 Calm.

13 Calm.

14 Calm.

15 20 Taube bombs 12:15 P. M., 2 killed, 1 wounded; intermittent French artillery at night.

16 Calm.

17 Taubes in morning; no shells; French artillery to south in afternoon; Taube 6 P. M.

18 Calm.

19 Anniversary of cathedral fire in 1914; calm; Taube in afternoon; French artillery at night.

20 Calm.

21 French artillery 11 A. M., no response.

22 Bombardment 9:30 A. M. to noon, 32 shells, 1 killed, 6 wounded.

23 Taube 8 A. M.; bombardment 9:30 to 11 A. M., 33 shells.

24 Taube 8 A. M.; bombardment 11 A. M., 32 shells; renewed 1:30 P. M., 10 shells on observation balloon in rear of Reims.

25 German fire on aeros; bombardment 1:30 to 4 P. M., 21 shells.

26 Bombardment 3:30 to 5 P. M.; renewed 5:30 to 6:30 P. M.; 19 shells in all.

27 Bombardment 1:30 to 3:30 P. M., 31 shells.

28 Bombardment 10:30 A. M.; no shells on Reims.

29 Very calm; no cannon sounds in sector.

30 Calm.

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