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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 45, 21 February 1917, Page 2

With a daily average of 1300 pupils attending school, above and below ground, in Reims during the last eighteen months under intermittent bombardment, not a single injury or accident has happened to any of the scholars (writes a Paris correspondent). Classes have to be interrupted for days at a time, but the facts never lessen the zeal of the .teachers, or the diligence of the pupils, though the enemy is not .more than 2000 yards off. To a- largo extent the classes are held in the cellars and wine caves of the town, in some instances in caves two stories below the surface of the street. There the air is more humid, and there is less light than in the ordinary schoolroom above ground, but otherwise there is little difference in the condition of the routine. When a bombardment begins, some of the children show signs of fear; not always for themselves, but for father or mother, whom they think must be in danger. When the bombardment • has completely ceased, the children are dismissed and sent home. The streets are then safe, excepting the exterior boulevards, where the children are warned not to go. Some of the school scenes aro tragic, others comic, notwithstanding tragical surroundings. A class will be at work.-, when suddenly a servant opens the door and calls out: "TKey are bombarding close by." A second or two later.the noise of n shell bursting on a house close by makes the smaller children tremble "and cry. At once' the classes are led down into the cellars, some of them carried by soldiers who have come in from the street to avoid shell splinters. A SUMMER NECESSITY. . When you wake up with <i parched tongue or dry throat, you will find a- teaspoonful of Fluenzol momentarily ftoa-gled and swallowed most soothing. FJuehzol, Is 6d trnd 2s 6d, aJliys; inflammation in the throat or noso and cools the system by dispelling fever germs. Invaluable and quite' harmless for restless children,— Ad,yt.