AN INEXCUSABLE CRIME
FRENCH HOSPITALS SET
ON FIRE
WOUNDED MEN KILLED
GERMANS INFURIATED BY
DEFEAT.
(UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTOGHT.) IKEOTKR'S TEI.KGRAII.) (Received August 23, 2.30 p.m.) PARIS, 22nd August. Infuriated by their defeat at Verdun, the Germans have committed a fresh and inexcusable crime.
Aeroplanes, with incendiary bombs, set fire to three French hospitals full of wounded, and turned their machine-guns on the medical staff when rescuing the
patients.
The victims include seven medical men. Seven wounded men were killed and thirty-three injured.
A Red Cross nurse and a male nurse wero also killed.
There was no panic. The wounded who were able to walk were assisted by comrades.
Although the Red Crosses on the roofs of the hospitals wero plainly visible in the glare of the burning buildings, the Germans returned and bombarded the hospitals a third time.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1917, Page 8
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138AN INEXCUSABLE CRIME Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1917, Page 8
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