FRENCH OPERATIONS
BOMBARDMENT AT MAUREPAS
GERMANS AGAIN SHELL REDIS,
The High Commissioner reports : — ■ LONDON, 14th August, 3.15 p.m. A French official report states: North of the Somme there is a lively cannonade ill the region oE Maurepas. 'South of the Somme we enlarged our positions southwest of. Estrees, taking portions of trenches.
On Sunday evening the German aeroplanes bombed Reims; meanwhile their batteries bombarded the town. The civil hospital, near the BasiJique of St. Remy, and the dispensary were destroyed, and six civilians killed.
[The census may sometimes be a- record of heroism. This is the case with Reims, where 'the present population has been counted, and found to consist on sth June last of 5861 men, 10,012 women, and. 4110 children—total, 19,983. The normal population before the war -was aboxit 120,000.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 40, 16 August 1916, Page 7
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