BARBARIC OUTRAGE.
HOSPITALS DELIBERATELY BOMBED. DOCTORS AND NURSES KILLED. Reuter Message. (Received This Day, 2 p.m.) PARIS, August 22. Infuriated by their defeat at Verdun, the Germans have perpetrated a fresh and inexcusable crime. Aeroplanes dropped incendiary bombs and set fire to three French hospitals full of wounded, and machine-gunned the medical men rescuing the patients. The victims include seven medical men. Several wounded soldiers were killed and thirty-three injured. A Red Cross nurse and a male nurse were also killed. There was no panic. The wounded men able to walk assisted their comrades. Although the Red Crosses on the roofs were plainly visible in the glare of the burning buildings the Germans returned and bombarded the hospitals a third time.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7922, 23 August 1917, Page 3
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