SHELL-STRICKEN RHEIMS
8000 POURED IN DAILY.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received April 17, 12.35 p.m. PARIS, April 16. Eight thousand shells are poured into Rheims daily. They caused 25 fires on Friday, and similarly on Saturday. When a fire breaks out the Germans put an artillery barrage around the buildings to prevent the fire being extinguished.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13462, 17 April 1917, Page 5
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