BOMBARDMENT OF RHEIMS.
'M RUINS OF CATHEDRAL, i CHIEF BUILDINGS WRECKED. deceived September 23, 2.20 a.m.) Paeis, September 22. The bombardment of Rheims was continued on Monday. Only a few walls of the cathedral are standing. The Hotel de Ville, the museum, and other official buildings have been almost completely destroyed. The Germans intentionally directed their artillery fire on the principal buildings. Several inhabitants were killed during the bombardment of the cathedral.
The Germans killed a number of their own wounded, who were being tended with the French wounded in the hope that the flying of the Red Cross would save the cathedral.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15721, 23 September 1914, Page 8
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103BOMBARDMENT OF RHEIMS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15721, 23 September 1914, Page 8
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