Towns Retaken
HOSPITALS DELIBERATELY BOMBED. (Received Thursday, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. Correspondents at the American front state that the Franeo-Americans ’ counter attack eastward of Chateau Thierry last night retook the towns of La Chapelle and Monthedon, and cleared portions of tho Bois de Conie. The fighting here continues. The Americans everywhere are holding their ground. Both eastward of Rheims and of the Chateau Thierry region the Gorman airmen are apparently carrying out a set programme of bombing the hospitals. A captured map showed the position of every American hospital near the lines, nevertheless three were bombed, killing and wounding nurses, doctors and orderlies.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13941, 19 July 1918, Page 5
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104Towns Retaken Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13941, 19 July 1918, Page 5
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