THE FIENDISH HUN.
HOSPITALS IN FRANCE BOMBED. LONDON, May 23. The United Press correspondent says; German airmen bombed a large number of hospitals in the latest raid in Fiance, killing and wounding some hundreds of nurses, patients, and attendants. More than a score of Gothas participated in tha raid, dropping numerous bombs of enormous size. One half of a hospital whore there wi.s the greatest deathroll, was almost entirely demolished. Eye-witnesses describe the wonderful courage of the nurses during the raid. They refused to go to dug-outs, but remained soothing and cheering patients, many of whom were bad eases, unable to move. A Prussian squadron commander who was brought down and wounded, is now being attended by women whose sisters ho killed. He claims that he saw no Red Cross, but these hospitals had never before been bombed.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15519, 24 May 1918, Page 3
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138THE FIENDISH HUN. Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15519, 24 May 1918, Page 3
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